On 14/10/14 13:59, Zeev Suraski wrote:
That depends on the feature in question. The only features/changes that
simply cannot make it into non-major releases are ones that break
compatibility. Ideally there shouldn't be too many of those, regardless of
our release timeline - to make the lives of our users easier.
What we should really be saying
is "we can always do it in 8.0", but I suspect people are wary of saying
that
because it feels such a long way away.
We should try to push most of those into 7.0. We shouldn't release 7.0 with
a long list of changes that we think should make it into 8.0. Instead, if
we know about a change that requires a major version change - we should
review it now, and decide for/against it. It's the
non-compatibility-breaking-changes that we can safely say can wait for 7.1,
because they can.
Hi Zeev,
You are of course correct, a lot of changes can be made to minor
versions and have been in the past that don't require a major. That
doesn't change that there may be things missed (there may not, that's
not the point), or ideas that come up after GA or even at the last
minute e.g. in RCs or whatever that are wanted but have missed the 7
boat. Sure, get as much in as reasonably possible, but you potentially
can't get everything that comes up and you definitely can't get anything
that comes after release that requires a major. Some people may even be
keeping stuff back as you've provided a currently expected set of
changes. Nothing wrong with any of this, all is good.
If there is a cycle in place and thus an expected timeline / process for
*after* PHP7, then that surely makes the PHP7 timeline simpler to
manage, it gives a milestone for new ideas to be worked against and
more. If a good idea came through an RFC, but couldn't be done for PHP7,
the RFC would be dropped as there is nothing currently beyond that.
Tl;dr my thoughts are about after PHP7, which is itself looking pretty
good. I just don't want for the community, or the awesome internals devs
with great ideas walking away from things because there is no future plan.
Again, apologies for the side-track. It's not really specific to the
thread, but I still feel it's an important point.
Ta.
Jonny.
