Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:85623 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49217 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2015 05:52:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Apr 2015 05:52:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.220.51 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.220.51 mail-pa0-f51.google.com Received: from [209.85.220.51] ([209.85.220.51:35458] helo=mail-pa0-f51.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 69/70-40332-4B78B155 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:52:53 -0500 Received: by patj18 with SMTP id j18so42038571pat.2 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:52:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kwOQ14nqoHQxi9uRSP1ywWs+e8ZViErWY2exv/mdLA0=; b=oSWFan/SR1s094njwx2r2ECtLm/tP+Ix0Ffz1QoOj4bQCLXlJL9m1c14JGGJSIj+qV v4kHjrznGykVRsAH2LRz9cjkDOgPzbzKcZQ0CrG/PbYtLqr8Gn034+fYDaH9O43wS4nn ba/npcwPuDPjCch822g0+341vLoXa34OwM2MDe2y/zCG6sfkzv4/7Q0K6IVxzCjufYz9 Ybb5iByS6BKFSRSnMxebN7azQFbaqIvESXwhusoJVho0ydqf8gIdKSAusf4CZq5OCMZ+ r1C51HWENWmAG5eCNXcKfHhP4kBxBqvkyWhNyvH9VCgMAVC0a1d6nr3cfXR5dUgnvYw7 iS+Q== X-Received: by 10.70.93.4 with SMTP id cq4mr69215214pdb.163.1427867569816; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Stas-Air.local (108-66-6-48.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net. [108.66.6.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id eb4sm774194pbd.18.2015.03.31.22.52.48 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <551B87AF.2010109@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:52:47 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Schaaf , Rowan Collins CC: internals References: <55193060.5000804@php.net> <55199AE8.4090100@gmail.com> <5519B3E3.1070102@gmail.com> <5519C9E0.6010001@gmail.com> <551A8B42.6080603@gmail.com> <551AFF0B.7020903@gmail.com> <32D4890E-E746-4DB5-8147-889EA9CB4454@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What's our official stance on small self-contained additions in a micro version From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! >> - Up until the first release candidate of x.y.0, small features can be > added to both the most recent live branch and the new branch being > prepared for release (so, right now, 5.6.x and 7.0-pre; next summer, > 7.0.x and 7.1-pre). >> - Once a new x.y.0 release is ready, x.y-1.z releases should receive > bug fixes only. Thus 5.5.x should not be receiving features. >> - As an exception to the above, when releasing x.0.0, the previous > branch may continue receiving small features, until it reaches the end > of its "active support" phase. In other words, keep backporting things > to 5.6.x after 7.0.0 is released, since adoption of the latter is likely > to be slow. By the time 7.1.0 comes around, active support for 5.6 will > have ended anyway, unless we make some other exception to the normal > process. This looks like a reasonable compromise. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com