Seems like a good plan to me. Hopefully as per schedule it gets us 5.4 this year.
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I has been almost a month since we did our routine talk about 5.4, so here > it goes again. The patch for the scalar hints seems to be pretty simple (see > http://random-bits-of.info/no_scalar_hints.diff - no generated files > included, that will be done on actual commit), so it should not hold us too > much. > I propose putting current code in a branch and continue without scalar > typing for 5.4 - any objections to that? > > I would like to propose the following process (of course, dates can be moved > around, etc. - I consider phase lengths be more important that actual dates, > but any of them can be shifted if reason arises) for 5.4: > > - starting now - nominate features for 5.4 (see > https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54), discussion on them > - May 18 - start voting and debating on features that have no clear > consensus support immediately. On the end of May is also phptek, so we could > have some discussion there about it if needed. > - June 15 (a bit more than a month) - alpha, branching of 5_4, open only for > bugfixes and features in TODO list that are approved and can be done by beta > time. > - July 20 - beta, bugfixes only (if we add a lot of features, we may want to > insert another 1-month alpha period, so far it doesn't look like it but may > change) > - Aug 24 - RC1, then an RC every 2 weeks until stable > - Release - somewhere in October or November, depending on the RCs. > > I think we need to start moving. Not much is happening in 5.4 now as far as > I can see, and we have a good feature set that is long due to be released. > For proposing stuff for 5.4, please do it here: > https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54 and also on the list if it wasn't discussed > and you think it requires discussion. > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
