On 10 December 2012 18:58, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@php.net> wrote: > As of this date the 5.3 branch will go to extended support and should > receive security fixes only. Releases will be made based on need. > > Please mind that the above schedule is tentative and unpredictable > events might change this. > > Comments?
At the very least, I think we should keep full support going until 5.5.0 final is out, which it strikes me probably won't be in February at our current rate. Beyond that, I don't particularly want to create a rod for our own backs ($DEITY knows, _I'm_ useless at merging across branches, as you all know), but I wonder if 5.3 might need a bit longer in one form or another. RHEL 6, Debian 6, Ubuntu 12.04 (not the latest stable version, unlike the others, but the LTS version), Mac OS X 10.8 (and many of the derivatives of these distros, particularly RHEL) are all shipping PHP 5.3 packages by default. As a result, I think the odds are that developers are likely to develop and deploy applications on PHP 5.3 for quite some time to come. (Plus, 5.3 had most of the big headline features of the last few years — a lot of people will consider it "good enough".) I'm not suggesting we necessarily extend full support, but I wonder if one year of critical bug fixes and security updates will be enough. Adam, who will now take his 2¢ and do something useful, like making the MySQL changes from last week. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
