On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@php.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Leigh <lei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> With 7.0 feature freeze in effect, and proposals and RFCs still coming > in > >> that are going to target 7.1, I think it's time we branched master and > >> selected a release manager (or two) for 7.0. > >> > >> Traditionally the newer RM from the previous release stays on, and a > new RM > >> is introduced who will remain for the next two releases. So in this > case it > >> would be Ferenc + 1. > >> > >> However this is a major release and we obviously have to make sure > Ferenc > >> is happy to keep this position. So, Ferenc? How do you feel? :) > >> > >> Do we have any candidates willing to put their name forward as possible > >> second RM? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Leigh. > >> > > > > Hi, > > > > I think it would be better to have the RMs selected sooner than later. > > From my personal experience having an RM who has also has to RM the > > previous version is a bit sub-optimal, and for a major version it would > be > > better to have two dedicated people who can focus on the 7.0 release > only. > > Having said that I'm willing to take on the role for 7.0 if there are no > > better options available, but in this case the other RM should be > somebody > > with strong php-src knowledge to compensate for my shortcomings. > > About the potential volunteers for co-RMing, I remember Kalle explicitly > > volunteer for 7.0, and I also have some vague recollection seeing both > > Pierre and Derick mention to villing to RM, but I can be wrong there. > > If there are others who wanna apply, please speak up, usually there > aren't > > many people to chose from, but I think the more options the better. > > I fully agree. > > From A RM point of view, I agree with other here, I could not think of > a better person than you as one of the RMs. You did and still do a > fantastic job, keeping things up and running, awesome communications, > etc. As a 2nd RM, I would like someone with good low level knowledge > and have a given objectivity. Anthony would be awesome, now that he is > back :) > > I also agree that branching too early will create some extra work > which may be counter productive for now. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Hi, bumping the thread as we should start the release steps (branching out 7.0, tagging the first alpha or more likely beta) if we wanna keep up with https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline
