Newsgroups: php.doc,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.doc:969384815 php.internals:71208 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20414 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2014 15:22:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jan 2014 15:22:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=julienpauli@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=julienpauli@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.219.43 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.219.43 mail-oa0-f43.google.com Received: from [209.85.219.43] ([209.85.219.43:43831] helo=mail-oa0-f43.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 13/A0-16023-ABA49D25 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:22:35 -0500 Received: by mail-oa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id h16so4190296oag.30 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:22:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4Ji62ZW7FXcOtQjZagl3OD6L9X7vDiWRI3S02pyI0dM=; b=hmQ8TPoROCZETPc9F/u8tWlD90fMPRFiVh0Ma3tNAw2fqO4vfTTOU6TBW06qYdE/5A Yvc/Ip8iYLLQP2rDBmff/Ii4U7YUME3q6cKPcLG2vifLAIqTY/xuuHzgFpaDs9MeF1Qk rhkD10ZaD44Sgy6f5Qj5PvGY3/Tepw6ziKTy0YBoMznFSHQWfiLyuuDHK2kbfs2p+Twt WobVJPOSJrZZ9gQlj7FNzSVQb/XdXvCBvECyfzspB4whgfqYPHUAMcs4zQn0WNOGuVjy Zcvy/LR7sPJMaO9k2pSIm+4AR5SzsGHs2S86KtW+eGsBZuDVIBMI9ydpnfRft76Dusky 6KPQ== X-Received: by 10.60.246.104 with SMTP id xv8mr2080975oec.18.1389972151773; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:22:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: julienpauli@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.235.46 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:21:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:21:51 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PT8Ffn1yShZM5zEsldtJa5t40HA Message-ID: To: Adam Harvey Cc: Ferenc Kovacs , PHP Internals , phpdoc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposed timetable for PHP 5.6.0 From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Adam Harvey wrote: > On 17 January 2014 17:05, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >>> I plan to tag the the first alpha today, and release it tomorrow, so th= e >>> time for new RFCs are almost up. >> >> I had to recreate my dev environment as my home desktop got some hardwar= e >> issues, and I didn't wanted to tag the release without a bit more testin= g. >> Hopefully I can tag the release today, and I will talk with Julien and t= he >> windows build guys about the next possible release date. >> >> Sorry for the delay! > > I'm quite happy about the delay, as it's allowed me to use a Friday > evening productively hacking together a skeletal draft of the PHP 5.6 > migration guide =97 it's not on the mirrors yet, but it is on > docs.php.net: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration56.php. What a nice idea, we are talking about doc and migration guide before even the first alpha ! Nice nice :-) > > At this stage, 5.6 features aren't being documented outside of the > migration guide, since we're not at the feature freeze yet, so some of > the new features are only minimally documented. (For instance, there > are many variations of splat and variadic syntax that aren't covered > at present.) Once we hit feature freeze, they'll start getting proper > pages/sections in the language reference and will have more > comprehensive documentation (particularly if you help write it). Sounds like a nice plan. > > For developers who've committed significant code to 5.6, please make > sure your feature/deprecation/change is mentioned somewhere in there =97 > if it hasn't been, it's almost certainly because it wasn't in > UPGRADING, so please fix that. :) Please also feel free to jump in and > edit anything you're unhappy with! Some of the smaller changes were a > bit opaque. Thx for the reminder ! ;-) > > Thanks, > > Adam, who really doesn't want to spend the eventual 5.6.0 release day > the way he spent the 5.5.0 release day. Lol, I don't remember that, ping me when you want to refresh my mind. Always nice to learn from past experiences. Julien.Pauli