Hi internals, Based on previous discussions, it appears that our current plan is to release PHP 8.0 after PHP 7.4. Normally we only branch off versions once they reach beta stage, which means the PHP-7.4 branch will only be created around summer 2019.
I would like to propose to branch off PHP-7.4 earlier this time and start working on PHP 8.0 in the master branch. This will allow people to start working on changes that are not suitable for PHP 7.4 (due to either significant internal ABI breakage, or userland breakage). Because each new branch introduces a lot of merge overhead for contributors, I would further propose that merges should only go up to PHP-7.4, while merges into master (PHP 8) will be performed occasionally, on an as-needed basis, by the people working on it. Regards, Nikita
