On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > > > All, > > > > As we’re getting closer to release 5.6.0, and given the very high level > of > > interest in phpng, I think it’s time for us to provide some clarity > > regarding what happens post 5.6.0. > > > > Dmitry and I wrote an RFC proposing that we merge phpng into master and > > turn it into the basis of the next major version of PHP (name TBD). > > > > The RFC is available at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/phpng > > > > There are actually two questions here: > 1. Do we want to base the next major version on phpng? > 2. Do we want to merge phpng into master? > > The latter is tied to the question whether or not we want to have a PHP 5.7 > release in the meantime. I'm not really sure whether or not that would be > good, I would recommend opening a separate thread about that question. > either way, master should/will contain the changes from phpng, otherwise we would go against to our current merge everything upwards git workflow. but that doesn't really a problem for 5.7, we should just branch it from 5.6 (we wanted to do this for 5.6 and 5.5, but most of the changes in master at that time was ok for a minor, so we branches from master instead of cherrypicking everything.), as anything we want to backport from master to 5.7 would require manual work to make it compatible with 5.7. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
