On 2012-03-05, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +1.
>
> Votes are for later.
This was an indication of being in favor of the proposal, no more, no
less.
> > Since so many distros and ISPs tend to adopt late, this would keep them,
> > and their users, covered for a reasonable time period, allowing for a
> > cleaner migration path.
>
> There is a clear migration path defined now for all releases beginning
> from 5.4. The discussion here is about 5.3 only.
>
> Please read all posts or replies, it helps to get the whole idea and
> avoid repetitive arguing :)
I did, actually. I still agree with Sebastian's proposal. While the PHP
group may want to push for faster adoption, the pattern I've observed
over and over is that ISPs and distributions -- particularly those with
LTS offerings -- tend to adopt a minor version only when the new minor
version supplanting it has been released. Does it make sense? No. Is it
what happens? Yes. As such, I think it makes a lot of sense to base the
lifetime of 5.3 based on when 5.4 is released.
For the record, it's the path we're taking with ZF as well -- lifetime
for the last minor release of ZF v1 will be determined by when
ZF2-stable is released.
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