On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > On 2 March 2012 21:34, Simon Schick <simonsimc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > One or two years is way to short if you'd ask me. A major release should > be > > supported with all kind of bug fixes for min. 3 years after a new release > > has been brought out. Specially if it's a wide-spread language like PHP > that > > has been implemented by such big and lazy companies. Please do not > > misunderstand that. Lazy is not meant in the way that they are doing > > nothing, but that it takes way more time as it does for me installing a > new > > PHP version on my 2-3 servers. > > There has to be a limit at some point because the maintenance burden > becomes too difficult. With the two year proposals, we're going to end > up in a position next year where we'll have active 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 > and trunk trees (or whatever 5.5 and 5.6 get numbered). That's at > least one too many, frankly, but there was always going to be some > awkwardness during the transition to the new release process and I for > one would prefer to err on the side of caution. > > Honestly, I'd probably prefer 9 months of bug fixes (up to the release > of 5.5 in November/December) + 9 months of security fixes, but I don't > want to muddy Pierre's RFC further, and I'd like to hear the opinions > of the RMs, since this is very much on them. > > The point of the release process RFC was to clarify this — releases > from 5.4 onwards have a clearly defined two year bug fix + one year > security fix lifetime. I think that's reasonable, and it falls into > line pretty well with a number of other languages. The fact that we're > in this position is a one-off, and I don't think we can prolong it > indefinitely (nor do we really have the resources to). > > Adam > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I'm OK for option #1 The RM should have things to tell from their side and from past experiences.
About LTS, I think it's not our job. Any company that would need LTS should just ask for it from its OS Support, that's their job. Julien.P
