On Nov 18, 2011, at 15:06 , Fabien Potencier wrote: > On 11/18/11 2:48 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Fabien has mentioned several times now that he doesnt expect Symfony2.1 to >> become the first LTS release of the 2.x tree. >> So I would like to first ask Fabien why he feels this way but also to gather >> the ideas of how we can best decide on which release to make the first LTS >> release. > > 4 components were not marked as stable when we released 2.0: Config, Form, > Security, and Serializer. > > * As of today, I'm quite confident about the stability and the API for the > Form component.
Me too. > * We have not really worked on the Config component since 2.0, so it's > probably a good sign that it is also stable enough (we need of course to > merge the documentation feature before.) Yeah, there is kbond's PR which builds on what is there already. > * For the Serializer, I'm less confident as this is an area I don't know that > much and it seems like there is some refactoring going on. Yes, then again its not too large. > * Last, but not the least, the Security component. Again, I think the API is > now quite stable, but as nobody has really worked on the possible > simplification, I'm still not ready to mark it as stable (API wise of course). Indeed, this is the tricky area. > Also, as we have quite a few interesting features in master already, I feel > like releasing a 2.1 early would be better than waiting too much just to be > able to mark this version as a LTS. So, my point of view is to release more > frequently but not necessarily have a LTS version later than expected. Yeah, imho its better to stick to a 6 month release cycle. If we delay for features, then you never know how long you will slip and with a release every 6 months its clear when the next chance is to get something in. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith m...@pooteeweet.org -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-devs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-devs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
