Hi, I think it might be worth to discuss if we want to go for PHP 8.0 at this time. I'd think that lots of businesses will prefer stability over new features and resolving BC breaks in the coming months. Also life of many devs might get impacted. I'm thinking that it would be good to at least consider if it makes sense to for example branch 7.5 from 7.4 and just concentrate on stability and possibly additional deprecations. It would also give us more time to improve 8.0 - at least I plan to do bunch of things on openssl ext but the current situation makes it a bit harder for me and I would imagine that it might be the case for others as well.
Cheers Jakub On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:12 AM Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > Hi again, > > Just a reminder that if you're interested in being one of the PHP 8.0 > release managers, then now is the time to step forwards. I'll be > starting the selection procedure next week. > > cheers, > Derick > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > With the first alpha of 8.0 due in three months, I think it's time to > > start the process of finding and electing release managers for the next > > release of PHP. > > > > We are looking for two developers to take on this role. Whomsoever is > > elected will be guided and helped by the previous RMs and the excellent > > documentation in php-src:README.RELEASE_PROCESS. > > > > Candidates should have a reasonable knowledge of internals (without > > necessarily being a C guru), be confident about merging pull requests > > without breaking backward compatibility, doing triage for bugs, liaising > > with previous release managers, and generally getting the branch in good > > shape, as these are among the activities you will be undertaking as > > release manager. > > > > Please put your name forward here if you wish to be considered a > > candidate. An initial TODO page has been added to the wiki and contains > > provisional dates for GA and pre-releases: > > https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80 > > > > cheers, > > Derick > > > > > > -- > PHP 7.4 Release Manager > Host of PHP Internals News: https://phpinternals.news > Like Xdebug? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support > https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > twitter: @derickr and @xdebug > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
