On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 12:01 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't catch that this message said feature freeze *and branch*. > > Please do not create a separate PHP-8.0 branch yet. A separate branch is > only needed if anyone wants to start landing changes targeting PHP 8.1 > already -- as far as I'm aware, nobody is actively working on PHP 8.1 yet. > > This is how we've done it since we adopted the formalized release process. :/ > Due to our git workflow, creating a branch now means that every single > commit to PHP 8.0 will also require a merge into master. This is a rather > big waste of time and CI resources if we expect PHP-8.0 and master to be > identical in the near future. > > I, for one, plan to start pushing resource->object conversions that are targeting 8.1, so to me it makes sense to have that development branch open already. Do others feel strongly one way or the other? -Sara
