RE: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Anatol Belski
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Stanislav Malyshev > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 8:55 PM > To: Sara Golemon ; PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute > > Hi! > > > I'm disappointed by the last minute kitchen-sink dump of RFCs being > > raised,

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Rowan Collins
On 10/07/2018 14:10, Sara Golemon wrote: What are the causes? I have noticed three approximate (and overlapping) categories of late RFC: 1) Submarine features: Features which have been developed over a long period, but where the author wanted to get things polished before formally

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I'm disappointed by the last minute kitchen-sink dump of RFCs being > raised, rushed through discussion, and voted on with minimal periods. > While I'm all for delivering useful features to end users, I don't > want us to get in the habit of seeing months of quiet followed by > weeks of

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Andrey Andreev
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Sara Golemon wrote: > I'm disappointed by the last minute kitchen-sink dump of RFCs being > raised, rushed through discussion, and voted on with minimal periods. > While I'm all for delivering useful features to end users, I don't > want us to get in the

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Den tir. 10. jul. 2018 kl. 17.26 skrev Dustin Wheeler : > I'm relatively new to all of this. I think it's a bit strange to > earmark a minor release as deprecation-only, but I also wasn't around > for the last major upgrade to see discussion (was 5.6 the focus of > many deprecations?) Afair then

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Dustin Wheeler
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:43 PM Sara Golemon wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Dustin Wheeler wrote: > > That said, if feature freeze for a release is announced well in > > advance, published, > > > Depends on what you consider a proper announcement[1], but it is > published[2] and the

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Thomas Hruska
On 7/10/2018 6:10 AM, Sara Golemon wrote: I'm disappointed by the last minute kitchen-sink dump of RFCs being raised, rushed through discussion, and voted on with minimal periods. While I'm all for delivering useful features to end users, I don't want us to get in the habit of seeing months of

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Peter Lind
On 10 July 2018 at 15:26, Dustin Wheeler wrote: *snip* > Personally (for Class Friendship), I opted to target either 7.4 or 8.0 > (whichever was decided to be next-in-line) > Seems to me this is one of the issues - that this is something that isn't just set in stone. If there was an overall

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Sara Golemon
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Dustin Wheeler wrote: > That said, if feature freeze for a release is announced well in > advance, published, > Depends on what you consider a proper announcement[1], but it is published[2] and the date can reliably be expected to occur around mid-July until and

Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute

2018-07-10 Thread Dustin Wheeler
> > We don't need to solve this now, this week, because there are plenty > of rushed, last-minute proposals on the table already. But I'd like > folks to start thinking about this and ways we can mitigate this > problem come future releases. > > -Sara > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime