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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal to delay 7.0 timeline
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

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On 03/21/2015 08:52 AM, Fran=E7ois Laupretre wrote:
> Now, after more calls from many of you to delay it, and as Zeev himself=

> seemed to consider it as more acceptable, I am proposing again to delay=
 7.0
> feature freeze to May, 15 (2 month delay, date where vote is starting).=
 I
> won=92t repeat all the arguments of my previous posts but, to summarize=
, it
> would allow to include important features, making it a =91real=92 major=
 version.
> Releasing a major version is not just a question of BC break, we also n=
eed
> to think about what we put forward. So, we need features. We already ha=
ve
> STH, but we can do more (I personally have at least 4 RFCs I didn=92t h=
ave
> time for, including scalar pseudo-methods, which can be an important
> feature).

No, please, let's get what we have stabilized and out the door. There
are always more things to do and we can delay things indefinitely. And I
completely disagree that this isn't a 'real' major version.

-Rasmus


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