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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:10:49 +0200
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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> He just asks if we will have a 5.7 release while working on the next maj=
or
>> in master.
>>
>> I don't think that we can release the php-next under a years, so I think
>> that an 5.7 could be warranted (to keep up with our roadmap), but depend=
s
>> on wether or not we have enough new (BC-safe) features.
>>
>> I don=E2=80=99t see a reason of why we can=E2=80=99t have this major ver=
sion ready by or
>> even sooner than the current yearly rhythm we have.  In fact, if we do a=
im
>> to work in parallel on both 5.7 and .NEXT =E2=80=93 we=E2=80=99re likely=
 to needlessly
>> delay .NEXT=E2=80=A6
>>
>>
>>
>> Zeev
>>
>>
>>
>
> because there is so much stuff which we want to do in the next major
> version, but we can't even start because there is no stable base to targe=
t
> the other php-next features.
> based on the history of php versions, any feature which misses php-next
> will have to wait for the next decade, so I don't think that we should ru=
sh
> it (to meet our yearly release cycle defined in
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess).

Exactly.

And https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6 and the related discussions (where
@Zend and phpng's team were totally absent, go figure).

--=20
Pierre

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