On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Juan Basso <jrba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During the discussion process it was discussed and people were ok with it > > since it doesn't break any existing code. Also, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK option > > was added on json_encode in patch version (added on 5.3.3). > > > I do not know who are the "people" but the release process is pretty > clear on that. We decided not to allow features additions to ease > developers life, like not having to do dozen of tests to know which > minor versions added what. It is also why we have yearly releases, > reduce the delay between accepted features and actual availability in > a release. > > Please not that the release process was approved after 5.3 and applied to > 5.4+. > The release process RFC *explicitly* allows the addition of self-contained features in patch releases. This rule is implemented in practice either by RM approval for the feature or an RFC, the latter being the case here. Nikita
