On 17/06/2016 11:37, Björn Larsson wrote:
Den 2016-06-17 kl. 12:15, skrev Rowan Collins:
Do we really trust our future selves so little that we are incapable
of planning more than 6 months ahead?
Well, my interpretation was that postphoning it meant 8.0, which
is not 6 months away. Having it in a later minor release seems like
a worse alternative then 7.1 at a first glance.
No, it's not 6 months away; but it could be 1 year away, if we wanted it
to be. There's no adopted policy that says how many minor releases there
should be in the 7.x series.
So, we come back again to the question of what a major release actually
means. It seems that there is some idea in people's heads that PHP 8
would need to be "major enough", and that therefore we can't make it
happen sooner.
That is a very different definition of "major release" than SemVer, and
probably from the one we have documented as policy - which is absolutely
fine, if we update our documentation to say what that definition is. I
can't suggest how that definition would be worded, though, because I
honestly don't understand what people mean by "major enough".
Regards,
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
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