> On 21 בנוב׳ 2014, at 13:06, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote:
>> After some Twitter hints that I should get my act together and finally move
>> this to a vote, it’s finally happening:
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>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline#vote
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>> Cast your vote!
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>> Zeev
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> Hi,
>
> could you update the timeline to mention when do you want to start the alpha
> and beta cycle?
> for 5.6 the start of the alpha cycle indicated that we don't accept new
> proposals, and the start of the beta cycle indicated that we won't accept new
> features even if the RFC was already proposed or even accepted (but the patch
> wasn't finished or merged in time).
> you do mention the RC cycle as point 3, and my guess is that point 2, could
> be the beta cycle because your definition ("Finalize implementation & testing
> of new features") matches what we do with betas, but if that assumption is
> correct, then your RFC is missing a target date for the start of the alpha
> cycle, and that is important to know if we want to keep the rule that there
> could be no new RFCs targetting PHP7 after that date.
I think the "finalize implementation" stage corresponds to our alpha stage, as
we're not feature complete.
The proposal does suggest to go directly to an RC cycle afterwards, but it
could read beta / RC too. The difference between betas and RCs is typically
very small, they're both feature complete and only imply different levels of
quality. Personally I don't think we need both.
Zeev
