On 6/6/2016 12:01 PM, Rowan Collins wrote:
> I don't have a vote, but if I did I would vote against making this
> change in a minor release.
> 
> The release process RFC [1] says that for a release such as 7.1
> "Backward compatibility must be kept". This RFC gives no justification
> for being an exception to this rule, simply acknowledging that it is a
> deliberate break in compatibility.
> 
> It's a shame it didn't make it for 7.0, but in my opinion, this should
> now wait for 8.0.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess
> 
> Regards,

I completely agree. The policies are completely unclear. We have patch
and minor releases with BCs and at the same time clean-up of various
stuff is forbidden because of possible BCs in the next major version.
This makes absolutely no sense!

-- 
Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger

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