On 02/06/11 17:23, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Peter Lind <peter.e.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry for jumping into the thread, but I couldn't help noting that you seem >> confused about the distro suggestion. I think Ubuntu was the example, and >> there's nothing random at all about their release process. There are fixed >> timelines and life cycles in Ubuntu - having less branches does not in any >> way stop them from having a fixed release process and schedule. > It is about "random" release being chosen as LTS. For many users, it > will preventing migration until a given feature is part of a LTS > release. > > Our proposal to have fixed life time and release cycles does not have > this random effect and each x.y release is equally supported for the > same duration. The amount of branches can be reduced easily and even > if we may have many at one point, it will be only about sec fixes, > that's really not a problem (a bit of automated tasked will help here > too). > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org >
Johannes said: Every n-th "current" release will be a long term supported (LTS) release That doesn't sound very random to me if n is constant. That said, I'm not sure if an LTS is a good idea. One of the biggest frustrations for me as a developer is hosts taking forever to upgrade to newer versions of PHP. Most hosts I've seen are still on 5.2, and some don't seem to have plans of upgrading to 5.3 any time soon. To me, an LTS release would just make this situation worse, although the upside is that at least we'd still be getting security fixes. If however the LTS release lifetime is similar to the current y release (x.y.z) then maybe it won't be so bad as it would grant earlier and stable access to new features for those who have control over their php installs, while retain a more long term supported release that hosts would be happy with. Cheers, David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
