Hi! >> - Up until the first release candidate of x.y.0, small features can be > added to both the most recent live branch and the new branch being > prepared for release (so, right now, 5.6.x and 7.0-pre; next summer, > 7.0.x and 7.1-pre). >> - Once a new x.y.0 release is ready, x.y-1.z releases should receive > bug fixes only. Thus 5.5.x should not be receiving features. >> - As an exception to the above, when releasing x.0.0, the previous > branch may continue receiving small features, until it reaches the end > of its "active support" phase. In other words, keep backporting things > to 5.6.x after 7.0.0 is released, since adoption of the latter is likely > to be slow. By the time 7.1.0 comes around, active support for 5.6 will > have ended anyway, unless we make some other exception to the normal > process.
This looks like a reasonable compromise. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
