On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Peter Lind <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
I was referring to accepted features. Once they are accepted (and
implemented), our proposal makes sure that they will be in the next
release, which will happen within a year. And this next release will
have the same lifetime than any other.
> 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.
That's a different topic and it is covered by the BC breakages policy.
Only major versions bump allows that.
>
> Anyway, I'll stop it here, as I doubt I'll convince you of anything
> (and vice versa).
Heh, that's why we discuss, exchange views and oppinions :)
> Just one thing to add: thanks for the work on PHP :) Much appreciated.
You are welcome :)
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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