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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 20:32:24 -0500
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
From: scott@paragonie.com (Scott Arciszewski)

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As much as I had been looking forward to it soon, haste does makes waste.
Making a more responsible choice for the users is commendable and outweighs
the inconvenience a mere two week delay.

+1 from me.

Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -Rasmus
>
>

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