Derick Rethans wrote (on 15/08/2014):
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote:
I’ve kept putting this off, but given the current “move phpng to
master” vote, I really can’t delay this any longer.
It looks like PHP 7 is going to happen and phpng will be the base of
that. While we could move straight to PHP 7 after the release of PHP
5.6, I think there is some merit in having one more 5.x release,
namely 5.7, which would follow our usual release process and come out
next year.
Basically, you're wanting to give up hope on PHP 7 in one year *at the
moment it is started*... I think that's a pretty big mistake to do this
already. The momentum is here now, let's use it to get PHP 7
ready—instead of bogging ourselves down with a PHP 5.7.
Just a thought, but there's no fundamental reason why there would have
to be a full year between 5.7.0 and 7.0.0
People may want to treat 5.7 as "the last 5.x branch" in the same way
5.3.29 was deliberately prepared as "the last 5.3.x release", and it
might need to be maintained for longer than a normal release depending
on how smooth the adoption of 7.x turns out to be.
So to a certain extent, 5.7.x and 7.0.x would exist in parallel anyway.
If we want optimistic targets, what about a slim 5.7 release in the
first half of 2015 (~9 months), and 7.0 before 2016 (12 to 15 months)?
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Rowan Collins
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