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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [7.2] Timetable
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Do, 2017-04-20 at 19:06 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote:
> 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?

In addition to what othhers said: RC gives an argument to the RM
"sorry, we're in RC, this is a too big change" but gives a chance to
catch and fix issues.

johannes