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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> November 30 is Cyber Monday, where people are either
> 
> a) focused on maxing out their credit cards on every possible
> e-commerce site, or b) unable to roll out PHP 7 because their
> customers are busy with a)
> 
> At least at Heroku we have a blackout policy around Thanksgiving and
> Christmas for platform changes, and I'd imagine other hosting
> platforms do as well.
> 
> So maybe either Tuesday, or even better, Thursday, since that's
> release day anyway.

I don't think anybody would be deploying PHP 7 in production right after
the release. Moreover, I don't think anybody would be (or should be, for
that matter) deploying anything important into production pretty much
starting late November and until January, for the reasons described
above and also because too many people would either be gone or filling
in for people that are gone and don't want to stir any trouble. So I
think what matters is not the operational part but just announcing it
and making people aware of it (i.e. would they read the announcement or
would they have it buried in the post-holiday "omg, I've got 9000 emails
while I was out" pile. From that point, I agree that Nov 26 release is
less optimal.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com