On 2 June 2011 13:03, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Peter Lind <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2 June 2011 12:40, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>>
>>> No, it is the same that what we proposed. What we proposed is that
>>> every release is actually a LTS release. What Ubuntu uses works fine
>>> for distros given that it is a distro with an insane amount of totally
>>> unrelated projects they distribute, and alternative repositories exist
>>> for almost each of them.
>>>
>>> For a programming language, it is a totally different story.
>>>
>>
>> That makes more sense - you were, however, arguing against random LTS
>> releases which was rather confusing (there's a big difference between
>> "every release is an LTS" and "all LTS releases are random" - those
>> are not the only options).
>
> The randomness is about which release-features tuples would become a
> LTS, that's something that can't apply well to a project like php.
>
It's hard to see how that would be any more or less random than now,
given that it would still be a question of votes or consensus.
Presumably, features would not be removed (unless they were bad for
the language) and so they would still make it into LTS releases - the
next one up.
Anyway, I'll stop it here, as I doubt I'll convince you of anything
(and vice versa).
Just one thing to add: thanks for the work on PHP :) Much appreciated.
Regards
Peter
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