PHP 5.5 Release Schedule

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Hi Internals,

I think with the start of recent 5.3 EOL discussion, it's about time
to give an overview over the 5.5 schedule as far as I planned it.

I want to go for a new alpha this week (on thursday), 4 week after the
first one. I should have send out a mail two days ago but missed it.
Sorry for that, I'll do a better job with alpha3.

• From there I want to go with a new alpha in about two weeks, as we
  there are some things like ext/mysql deprecation in the pipeline.
  After alpha3 we have to check if there is something urgent in the pipe
  to do a alpha4. If not I want to go into beta phase for 2 betas.

The beta phase also marks the feature freeze, so no new features
should be added from there on (e.g. mysql deprecation should be done
in alpha phase). I hope that after 2-3 betas we can go to a first RC.
During 5.4 we needed a lot of RCs, so I assume a 5.5.0 final can be
expected around April.

I know this schedule is tight and some might not agree, but it's the
first release in the new 1 year timeframe so we have less features
then 5.4 and 5.3 to release and will release php-next in about a year
from know, so we are not in a hurry to just push everything in if it's
not ready. I am confident that the current open alpha window is good
enough for whats about to get merged and that 8-12 weeks of betas and
RCs are enough to stablize for a final version.

The schedule for the next 6 weeks is as follows:

15. Nov 2012 (past) - 5.5.0 alpha1
16. Dec 2012 - 5.5.0 alpha2
17. Dec 2012 - 5.5.0 alpha3
18. Jan 2013 - 5.5.0 beta1/alpha4 (feature freeze)

Julien and I will update http://wiki.php.net/todo/php55 over then next
days with what's left to do.

• • Julien and David
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