> -----Original Message----- > From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:ras...@lerdorf.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2015 9:49 PM > To: Anatol Belski; internals@lists.php.net > Cc: 'Kalle Sommer Nielsen'; 'Ferenc Kovacs' > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7 RTM date > > On 11/08/2015 11:15 AM, Anatol Belski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After doing the last evaluations in the RMs circle before going for > > 7.0.0 RTM preparations, we came to the conclusion that the current > > state does not look reasonable to be packaged as the final release. > > > > The RCs before RC6 was looking acceptable, which gave the reason to > > announce the planned RTM date on Nov 12th as final. From the todays > > perspective, the most of the issues discovered and fixed since RC6 are > > still minor by themselves - 7 crashes (bug #70805 rather critical), > > and 3 functionality regressions. However, given the amount and the > > combination of them altogether, the state is in our opinion unsuitable > > for starting the life cycle of the next major. > > > > Thus, resuming the pre-release cycle seems in our opinion the right > > thing to do ATM. Hence this writing to inform the community about the > > intention and to gather the opinions. PHP 7 is still going down the > > home stretch and is very close to the finish, the next RC can be well > > the last. Though we'd better ensuring the quality as many times as > > needed before, instead of casually disservicing the consumers. > > This is the right decision. The whole point of the RC cycle is to identify crash > bugs like 70805. It would have been great if we had caught it earlier, but we > still caught and fixed it before the release and hopefully we can still get the > final release out in November.
Thumbs up from me as well (incl. trying to get it out the door in November if possible). Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
