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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:11:40 -0800
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 15 December 2014 at 08:51, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> Yes, I disagree. It's a time thing. Let's all work on one thing instead
> of *two*. Clearly you must see that there is not enough bandwidth? It
> will also prevent people from "oh we can get this into 5.7" nonsense.
> It's not helpful, and it *is* fragmenting development.

I'm just as cognisant of our time constraints as you are, but I still
think this can work if there's a clear, written expectation (say via
RFC) that 5.7 is for migration related changes only, and should not
include new feature work. If we can keep this as "5.6 + some
deprecation warnings", I believe that can reduce the QA/development
load enough to make delivering it and 7.0 possible next year.

Adam, who apparently put his optimistic pants on this morning.