+1 to 2.1 asap and 2.2 LTS On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 4:04:32 AM UTC-4, Lukas Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > So first up: yes we dropped the ball. Symfony 2.1 should have been > released 4-5 months ago. So we screwed up. But stuff like this happens. > Overall we are in a luxurious situation that we have such a huge stream of > contributions that it poses a challenge. Now we need to deal with this > screw up and also ensure we prevent this from happening again. > > I have a bit of experience as the release manager of PHP 5.3 that its > impossibly hard to try and wait for big chunks of code to mature in a > healthy project with lots of other contributions. Everybody thinks their > little change is a no risk must have. But everything that gets added does > take time to review, has the risk of hidden surprises and in the end also > needs to be documented. > > At the same time there is no guarantee when exactly those big chunks of > code will be ready to be shipped. Its good that Victor is helping Bernhard > but even if everyone would now help on the form/validation component, that > would probably not speed things up much. Everybody should however make sure > to provide timely feedback to their progress. > > But at any rate, any of these numbers people have mentioned are ok to wait > for the form/validation component to mature are crystal ball estimates. 2, > 3, 4 months, august .. its all just educated guesses. > > Furthermore I dont think that breaking BC is binary. There are a lot of > grey areas in between. We have a ton of really useful things in master > already. > > Finally the key goal here is that we want to get to an LTS release. I am > not so sure that if we wait until August for 2.1 that we will have the > confidence to release it as an LTS. So imho it makes more sense to come out > with a 2.1 ASAP and then set us a timeline and feature set to target for > 2.2 as an LTS. IMHO the RC phase should be planned for > September/Oktober/November. Aka we feature freeze in September and then > give us 2 months to release. But as noted above, there are never > guarantees. > > regards, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > [email protected] > > > >
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