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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP
From: brian@moonspot.net (Brian Moon)

> Or, (maybe this is controversial in itself), drop the entire thing.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).

As I read this, it occurred to me that naming things before they are 
released is how we ended up in this situation to begin with. People 
started writing PHP6 books and doing talks at conferences before PHP6 
even existed. What if the same thing happens with PHP7? Or it happens to 
PHP6 again? Right now, there is discussion about phpng being php-next. 
What if that is rolled in and later found that it was a bad idea? And 
there are talks and blog posts about "PHP7" that talk about phpng?

With Phorum, we skipped version 2 and version 4 because of this issue. 
We named them, worked on them, and then decided they were bad 
directions. Those numbers were burned. If we had not named them to begin 
with, we would not have been in that boat.

Brian Moon
brianlmoon@php.net
http://brian.moonspot.net/