> > >> Well the issue with your approach is that 104 PR's is too much to review > and reviewing that in one go is not good either. So finding some better > separation and a plan forward could again help you to get this accepted. > > I meant 104 PR's are just too many small chunks to review. That said if you split it to multiple years, it might work too. In any case there should be some plan that doesn't involve merging of all changes in one go which is my main issue with this. The benefit is just too small to be able to contain it in a single minor version bump. I personally don't like the PHP-9.0 branch idea but if it's your preferred solution, you might propose that and see what others think. It's probably still better than getting that all in now IMO.
Regards Jakub