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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Branching off PHP7 and electing RMs
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello people.
>>
>> Time is going, and summer is coming.
>>
>> I think we must have branched 7.0 until end of May, and have our 2 RMs
>> elected.
>>
>> Don't forget we are starting a long testing process, and some people start
>> having some PRs to target 7.1, so we need to branch.
>>
>> The plans are to branch so that we prevent any not-wanted merge, and focus
>> on stabilization.
>> Start a calendar about our first alpha as well.
>>
>> If we want 7.0 to be released around October/November , we need to handle
>> those tasks right now.
>>
>> Thoughts ? ;-)
>>
>> Julien.Pauli
>>
>
> We put together a roadmap for 7.0 with Kalle:
> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70
> Then the idea was brought up that we should consider other candidates other
> than him, and we got sidetracked but did not really decide anything.
> I agree that it would be nice sorting it out ASAP, but having the first
> alpha on may 15th isn't feasible anymore.
> I've created a vote about the RMs, this isn't something we used to do in
> the past for (s)electing the RMs, but seeing how we couldn't reach an
> agreement on the first round I think it would help sorting this out fast:
> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#vote

There are no big issues to have a 3 people team. There will be enough
on your desk for 3.

Main point for all RMs team so far was to get experienced core
contributor on board as well as someone with planing and management
ability. The sooner is even more critical for 7.0.0 as we will most
likely have many requests to push one big change or another in the
engine or core extensions. Good knowledge of the impacts (on the
engine, stability status impact, etc) are more than required here.

Why you and Anatol makes perfect sense. Kalle can help a lot with the
numerous tasks that will pop up, testing patches cherry picks and all
these time consuming tasks.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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