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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle
From: francois@php.net (=?UTF-8?Q?Fran=c3=a7ois_Laupretre?=)

Le 06/12/2015 18:36, Zeev Suraski a écrit :
>> The 'sin' of the PHP 4 EOL was - well -
>> that we didn't have one for a very long time.

An important 'sin' of the PHP 4 EOL is also the massive backport of PHP 
5 features during years, which didn't push people to migrate.

>> In general, I don't think timelines make sense to commit to before a version
>> is released.  If for whatever reason a release gets delayed it makes no
>> sense that you'd be forced, as a user, for a shorter upgrade cycle.
>> Something along the lines of Francois' suggestion - where the lifetime of
>> version N-1 relates to the release date of version N is definitely needed,
>> and that was the thinking behind the release process timeline to begin with.
>>

Yes, starting counting from the release date of version N is better. So, 
instead of giving one additional year of support, what about a guarantee 
of 2 years of active support on <N - 1>.<last> starting from <N>.0 
release date ? That would extend 5.6 active support to Dec 2017, and EOL 
on Dec 2018, which is a good trade-off, IMHO.

Regards

François