On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:56 AM Gabriel Caruso <carusogabr...@php.net> wrote:
> Following Sara's email a couple of weeks ago, I come this week with a > similar one: > > Next Tuesday, Sep 29th, has been marked on our calendars 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 Sara and I know how you feel about this date. We can see that > master is still quite active, especially with > https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/18 and > https://github.com/php/php-tasks/issues/16, and we don't wish to make the > work to stabilize > the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be. > > Thanks, > At this point we have a number of PHP-8.1 only changes pending, so I think it would make sense to go ahead with the branch cut now. Any concerns with doing that today/tomorrow? (I don't think we need to synchronize this with the next release.) Nikita
