Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:98828 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 92623 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2017 17:06:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Apr 2017 17:06:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=nikita.ppv@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=nikita.ppv@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.223.169 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: nikita.ppv@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.223.169 mail-io0-f169.google.com Received: from [209.85.223.169] ([209.85.223.169:34884] helo=mail-io0-f169.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CA/76-61625-5AAE8F85 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:06:45 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r16so75309950ioi.2 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:06:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=iWqqbvFTIOoyyHewBBS3Cr2BFHwhwSDq+7R4nTFn/is=; b=HLm++4UB6CLyAd85Jj9YnnQvr3bDfKihZwMPjlAOkuFp0Tw3dEiJXoPwf4UrxtVORW CyIjmjQYlE2xxRyNOLtsVhfcJHwM+uCfnezKd+8VzsalPSbSJfH2RXzmFtcdQHtKMUiY a+RSHTzCqWwbzNOpNlUH/8f6jzaayNZ9jtvx3kN2ifXLYFbz0Us6t5QhRRGa8Ku5nmjz HUeuAXzpgTRMZ3JdNUnvtTfkJ9B001dOlKTDnA67yU2e/XcuZF8qn+g2juvo6p6CC6ni PwS5NYprdTeP/Cb6O+SX6gUbllnFxgv+s8lxo/m2wIX+MRCk5X1g0f/EqMTtmx7SD5eN 8g7w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=iWqqbvFTIOoyyHewBBS3Cr2BFHwhwSDq+7R4nTFn/is=; b=Jo80d9lsawO7NnJTMYEoqvXu3F/wony0tQWwpKOoPlKrxz5x/S6Qxng9y6Cb9I7xVw fcLfGFKq2P1fCldv9rgLNK1/xEq3/W9QvmWvJn70G8ZdDSDY5vIx+zowlTrXW7lI3mJy ZW6M1qnN/wNBGgxNNJ3M+ii75HGrGkCzbaDPCo2kWNoDa/K7XqjGcN2Zcl/daHX4yLVR of+EciBenUsh2DNh0VS8U18FY5u67pwQSM4Zq8QiO4aA9nwpH96V/yn5uKwcdj04mzws 982OyH5Ix7D4yBOEXkEC7hD2waaxOJtVmUf71S3mff/c2UMpkg3jyphO9Qv/afngLNEV +Y2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/4VgaHm5xpsKGyhw0EOhyTM5acEoIXBB6zY/u+OVTWleKdNb0GZ 620BACbibEAZ9A55/RM9Nua8Pabi/A== X-Received: by 10.36.74.82 with SMTP id k79mr5212265itb.58.1492707989711; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:06:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.9.144 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:06:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:06:29 +0200 Message-ID: To: Sara Golemon Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1144e0547af3a3054d9c2919 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [7.2] Timetable From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov) --001a1144e0547af3a3054d9c2919 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Sara Golemon wrote: > My how time flies! Feature Freeze for PHP-7.2 is coming up in exactly > THREE MONTHS on July 20th. Get your RFCs discussed, voted on, and > implemented unless you want to wait for PHP-7.3 > > -Sara > > Ref: https://wiki.php.net/todo/php72#timetable > I've been wondering for some time why we have the beta + RC split, where RCs are treated in essentially the same way as betas. In particular our minor version RCs (as opposed to patch RCs) are *not* candidates for release. Might it make sense to move RC1-5 to Beta 4-9 and keep only one scheduled RC? Similarly, does it really make sense to have a new pre-release every two weeks? I know that "we've always done it this way", but I'm not sure I see the motivation behind it (or who the target audience for a biweekly release is). Nikita --001a1144e0547af3a3054d9c2919--