Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75855 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2240 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2014 14:22:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jul 2014 14:22:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:39011] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1F/23-21666-7937EC35 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:22:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6BF8C0075; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:22:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TPPx4VZV_pT5; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B3548C007B; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:22:10 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:22:07 +0100 Cc: Rowan Collins , "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <84603C6F-F984-4F73-892A-4416391E4769@ajf.me> <53CE66D4.2060103@gmail.com> To: Jonny Stirling X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 22 Jul 2014, at 15:12, Jonny Stirling = wrote: > Or, (maybe this is controversial in itself), drop the entire thing. >=20 > Until there is in fact, a next major version, what its name will be is = surely moot, and until there is a GA release (or at the earliest alphas = / beta test releases), there should be no such thing as a versioned / = numbered release. >=20 > Assuming the above, there is no need to discuss / vote on this now, = but in 1-3 years or so (depending on who you listen to ;)), and in that = time frame, shouldn't it simply remain as PHP.next (or some random = codename / whatever).=20 There is a good reason to do this now: to avoid having to bikeshed about = it later. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/