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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 11:49:10 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

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On 11/08/2015 11:15 AM, Anatol Belski wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for 7.0=
=2E0
> RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current state does=
 not
> look reasonable to be packaged as the final release.
>=20
> The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to ann=
ounce
> the planned RTM date on Nov 12th as final. From the todays perspective,=
 the
> most of the issues discovered and fixed since RC6 are still minor by
> themselves - 7 crashes (bug #70805 rather critical), and 3 functionalit=
y
> regressions. However, given the amount and the combination of them
> altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable for starting the lif=
e
> cycle of the next major.
>=20
> Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right thi=
ng to
> do ATM. Hence this writing to inform the community about the intention =
and
> to gather the opinions. PHP 7 is still going down the home stretch and =
is
> very close to the finish, the next RC can be well the last. Though we'd=

> better ensuring the quality as many times as needed before, instead of
> casually disservicing the consumers.

This is the right decision. The whole point of the RC cycle is to
identify crash bugs like 70805. It would have been great if we had
caught it earlier, but we still caught and fixed it before the release
and hopefully we can still get the final release out in November.

-Rasmus


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