On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> wrote: > > >> On 19 Apr 2018, at 21:35, David Zuelke <dzue...@salesforce.com> wrote: >> >> I'm not saying no directives should ever be added in point releases or >> anything, but the constant backporting of *features* to 2.4 has >> contributed to the relatively high number of regressions, and to a >> lack of progress on 2.6/3.0, because, well, if anything can be put >> into 2.4.next, why bother? >> >> David > > What’s the rule for *features*?
That remains to be defined. Generally, I'd say anything that doesn't correct existing functionality, or anything that changes defaults, or anything that changes behavior with existing settings, is a feature/break/change and not a fix, so would belong in 2.next.0. More or less the Semver approach, essentially. See e.g. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess David