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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Making "backwards compatibility" discussions more constructive
From: keisial@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?=)

On 25/11/13 00:07, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
>
> On 24/11/13 22:18, Rowan Collins wrote:
>> a) Choose a bold, world-shattering feature, and rally the troops. There
>> are plenty of things that could be considered here, but I'll leave my
>> musing on those for elsewhere.
>
> How about we collect various features that unfortunately break 
> backwards-compatibility in a branch, and then eventually release 6.0 
> once a world-shattering feature comes along?

Or when you have a good number of not-too-big-but-not-small-either features.