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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:55:12 +0200
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To: Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.0.0 final RTM delay
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)


> On 3 =D7=91=D7=93=D7=A6=D7=9E=D7=B3 2015, at 10:09, Anatol Belski <anatol.=
php@belski.net> wrote:
>=20
> I would just ask for some patience, as mentioned before - today by UTC the=

> announcement is going out. It is still December 3rd as planned. That's why=
 I
> was sending the awareness about the late UTC afternoon today.=20
>=20

Anatol,

We're not dealing with tax forms that have to make it in by midnight UTC but=
 rather with humans.  Humans who are very excited and literally can't wait t=
o celebrate the release of PHP - a lot more so as an event than necessarily d=
ownloading and installing it right away (if that's what they cared about the=
y could do it already).

Releasing it now would mean most of the world gets to actually celebrate it o=
n Dec 3rd, instead of turning it into a frustrating waiting day.  I find it h=
ard to imagine people having an issue with us saying the Windows binaries wo=
uld be coming soon.  That's why all in all, I think it's a mistake not to pu=
sh it out as early in the day as possible, in other words - now.

I also think that in general we shouldn't wait with source releases for bina=
ry release - but specifically in this case, it's too minor a thing in my opi=
nion to delay a historical release like that of PHP 7.0.0.

My 2c.

Zeev=