This also gives me a time frame to clean up JIT code without hurry. I plan to separate the common JIT code, and merge JIT and VM helpers.
Thanks. Dmitry. On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 5:55 PM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:39 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:49 PM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote: > > > >> Next Tuesday, Sep 15th, has been marked on my calendar as the branch > date > >> for PHP-8.0 which would open master up for 8.1 targeted work. > >> > >> This would mean that bug fixes would need to include PHP-8.0 in their > >> merge > >> chain (meaning more work to merge 8.0 targeted fixes). > >> > >> Please let Gabriel and I know how you feel about this date. I can see > >> that > >> master is still quite active, and I don't wish to make the work to > >> stablize > >> the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be. > >> > >> > > > > I think it would be good to make this week's release beta4 rather than > rc1 > > (without affecting the rest of the schedule). In that case we'd also push > > back the branching and final ABI freeze two weeks. > > > > We're close to done with the warning to Error exception promotion task, > > but haven't really started on reviewing and consolidating parameter names > > yet (in preparation for named parameters). It would be good to have that > > work mostly finalized before RC1, so we can limit the number of nominally > > BC-breaking changes past RC1 (I expect we'll still fix some things that > > slipped through the cracks, but at least we should prevent any mass > > changes). > > > > > Yep. This seems like a reasonable adjustment to the schedule in order to > finalize these features. I'll do beta4 tomorrow/thursday, and we should > plan for RC1 branching in two weeks. Wiki ( > https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80 ) > has been updated to reflect this. Note that I have NOT moved the GA date > at this time, as that would push us into Dec 10th. Though as the date > approaches we may decide to add RC5 back in for safety despite the > perinavidinal timing. > > -Sara > > P.S. Yes, I made that word up. You know which one. >
