On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:49 PM Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> Next Tuesday, Sep 15th, has been marked on my calendar as the branch date > for PHP-8.0 which would open master up for 8.1 targeted work. > > This would mean that bug fixes would need to include PHP-8.0 in their merge > chain (meaning more work to merge 8.0 targeted fixes). > > Please let Gabriel and I know how you feel about this date. I can see that > master is still quite active, and I don't wish to make the work to stablize > the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be. > > -Sara > Hey Sara, I think it would be good to make this week's release beta4 rather than rc1 (without affecting the rest of the schedule). In that case we'd also push back the branching and final ABI freeze two weeks. We're close to done with the warning to Error exception promotion task, but haven't really started on reviewing and consolidating parameter names yet (in preparation for named parameters). It would be good to have that work mostly finalized before RC1, so we can limit the number of nominally BC-breaking changes past RC1 (I expect we'll still fix some things that slipped through the cracks, but at least we should prevent any mass changes). Regards, Nikita
