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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Headsup: PHP7 feature freeze
From: php_lists@realplain.com ("Matt Wilmas")

Hello RMs, all!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen"
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015

> Howdy
>
> This is a  quick heads up that we plan to have the next release of
> 7.0.0 be Beta 1, this marks a feature freeze and from there on, we
> will switch focus on to stabilization, regressions and other bug
> fixes.
>
> Beta 1 is schedule to be tagged and packaged on July 7th and released
> on July 9th which is a small 2 weeks from now to get any remaining
> changes of such in.
>
> If you are in doubt about whether or not your change would be
> considered a 'feature' or have any other questions, then feel free to
> mail us RMs or reply here.

I intended to reply to this shortly after, and I guess there isn't much 
reason to now.  :-)  I started messing with the parameter parsing stuff, 
which I thought would take a couple days max, but I got deep into it. 
Message coming sometime soon about that...

Anyway, I was wanting to do some enhancements to the Postgres extension, and 
I was hopeful they could be included for 7 until I saw this message and 
thought, "Uh-oh."  Until the ZPP thing, I hoped I'd have the basics of the 
"features" whipped up by the end of last week (not that I thought anything 
could be commited immediately ;-)).

Is this the shortest Alpha period ever? (Serious question. :-))  If I had 
really jumped on the work (I had to get up to speed on some new-to-me 
internals), I could have been maybe a month sooner.  But when I saw the wiki 
timetable, I thought there'd been until August or so after 3-4 Alphas... 
*shrug*  So if there are 9 releases before final, there's going to be 4-5 
Betas and 4-5 RCs?  I thought there'd be more "even" distribution.

Well, the Postgres stuff comes from the fact that I just "discovered" it 
(truly, in-depth) about 10 weeks ago.  (Life changing!)  Of course shortly 
after something led me to start looking into PHP's code, after already being 
disappointed.  As I analyzed things more, I figured I could actually fulfill 
my own wishlist. :-D

The main "feature" is very straight-forward (almost search-and-replace!). 
The other feature group I'm not sure what thoughts will be about 
usability/implementation, but it shouldn't be that big either, and totally 
isolated from existing functionality.

BTW, there are *several* other issues with the extension's code, that I 
started noticing right away.  I literally lost track, didn't note them; but 
hopefully can clean them all up.  Of course these can all be done, and also 
applied to 5.6, AFAIK.

If we can have these changes sometime, it'd be nice if it was before 7.1... 
Of course, for my personal use, I really don't care since I can use them 
right away.  But I think the PHP-Postgres community needs them and would be 
glad!

> Thanks,
> Kalle, Anatol & Ferenc

Thanks,
Matt