8 months is fine. It is more than enough time for people to upgrade and adapt. Extending support longer only extends the excuse for other developments not to upgrade and adapt, as history has proven time and time again.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:38 PM, François Laupretre <franc...@php.net> wrote: > Le 06/12/2015 20:38, Anatol Belski a écrit : > >> Virtually, most of the core devs are concentrated on improving and >> bringing forward 7. That means what is called "active development" doesn't >> really match the reality, per fact. >> > > That's 'active support', not 'active development'. It means that we accept > every bug reports, even not security-related. If we extend the > security-only period, the support of the whole 5.x for non-security-related > bugs stops in 8 months. Easier for us but too short for users IMHO. > > Regards > > François > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
