At least this is my understanding of how Components should act like and what Symfony2 Standard/Composer are/should be for.
I see no reason why we couldn't have a release cycle for components like the one Microsoft has for the Windows updates, every second Tuesday of every month, in Microsoft's case, maybe we can do a every six week release cycle for small increments of Symfony2.X.Y this way? Best regards, Florin On Friday, April 27, 2012 9:09:50 PM UTC+3, Fabien Potencier wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Symfony 2.1 release was expected to be published some time ago and > we struggle with it for two main reasons: > > * The number of contributions we have every single day. That's great but > it means that it is never a good time to release because of this last > minute great change that we want to merge first; > > * The recent BC breaks in the form/validator components. > > But basically, we cannot release 2.1 because of the second point. We > need to be sure that we only break BC for forms only once. So, we have > two options: > > * Wait for the form component to stabilize (which means that we are > happy with the state of the API and that enough people have played with > it and are happy with the features) > > * Release 2.1 as soon as possible (because we already have quite a few > nice enhancements). > > I thought that the second option was do-able by forking master and > reverting some PRs related to the form component (the ones that actually > break BC and are not stable yet because of some bugs or regressions -- > surprisingly, we are not talking about many of them). > > Many people think the contrary and so, I want to hear everybody's > opinion on this matter. > > Let me reiterate the two possibilities here: > > * Wait for the form component to stabilize: we can probably schedule 2.1 > for August 2012. In the meantime, we should concentrate on the form > component and delay other big changes that can affect the stability of > the release. > > * Release 2.1 as soon as possible. > > Whatever we choose, I want to next Symfony 2 releases to have shorter > release cycles (a bit like what I do with Twig); and for that to happen, > we need to keep BC as much as possible so that people can upgrade to new > versions without any fear. > > Fabien > > -- > Fabien Potencier > Sensio CEO - Symfony lead developer > sensiolabs.com | symfony.com | fabien.potencier.org > Tél: +33 1 40 99 80 80 > > -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
