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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>, Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2015 9:49 PM
> To: Anatol Belski; internals@lists.php.net
> Cc: 'Kalle Sommer Nielsen'; 'Ferenc Kovacs'
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
>
> On 11/08/2015 11:15 AM, Anatol Belski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for
> > 7.0.0 RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current
> > state does not look reasonable to be packaged as the final release.
> >
> > The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to
> > announce 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 functionality regressions. However, given the amount and the
> > combination of them altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable
> > for starting the life cycle of the next major.
> >
> > Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right
> > thing 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.

Thumbs up from me as well (incl. trying to get it out the door in November
if possible).

Zeev