On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I think by now, whatever you think on strict typing/typehints, it is clear > to everybody that there's no consensus about this feature, and with Rasmus, > Zeev & Andi, along with many others, being against it, as of now it can not > be a part of an official PHP release. > > On the other hand, we have tons of cool features in trunk which aren't > controversial and that we do want people to try out. > > So I'd propose doing the following: > > 1. Moving parameter typing to a feature branch (by branching current trunk > and then rolling back the typing part in the trunk). > 2. Starting 5.4 alpha process after that basing on trunk. > > Any objections to this?
Yes. > People that like the typing can still have them in the branch (and they can > keep the branch as current as they want) and if we ever See The Light (TM) > and want typed scalar parameters back, they're only a merge away. > > What do you think? I think using trunk as base is a mistake. We should begin using a stable branch (5.3) and merge what we want for the next release. It is also too early to begin to think about 5.4 as there is still a couple of things to clarify before. The most important ones being: - What are the top new things we like to have in - Define a clear release process (not going to go through a 5.3.0 or 6.0 again). - Define the RMs, I do want a good, honest and respectful RMs. The last point can wait as we are a couple of months away of defining the first two. For example I have a couple of very important things to add to the stack but I won't be able to describe them fully before September (I'm in holidays now, remember that 5.3.3 is a couple of weeks old...). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
