On Jan 24, 2014 5:44 PM, "Nikita Popov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My schedule recommendation would be to give PHP6 at least two years after
5.6. After all, it's a larger change, so we'll presumably need more time.
It is, but I'm also wary of having too big a gap between starting work and
releasing. Plugging away for years without a release is really
demoralising, as the PHP 6 experience showed. If anything, I feel like 18
months between 5.6 and 5++ is longer than ideal, but I think staggering the
release timing is worthwhile.
> Is there any problem with using the current master branch as PHP6 right
away? 5.7 (should it exist) can be branched off 5.6 after all.
We already have things that are likely to end up in 5.7, I think — I'd
rather have a 5.x-master rather than forcing developers to maintain long
lived feature branches for things that are 5.x material but not going into
5.6.
Adam