PHP 8.0 branch cut

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:49 PM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > >> Next Tuesday, Sep 15th, has been marked on my calendar as the branch date >> for PHP-8.0 which would open master up for 8.1 targeted work. >> >> This would mean that bug fixes would need to include PHP-8.0 in their >> merge >> chain (meaning more work to merge 8.0 targeted fixes). >> >> Please let Gabriel and I know how you feel about this date. I can see >> that >> master is still quite active, and I don't wish to make the work to >> stablize >> the 8.0 release any more difficult than it has to be. >> >> > > I think it would be good to make this week's release beta4 rather than rc1 > (without affecting the rest of the schedule). In that case we'd also push > back the branching and final ABI freeze two weeks. > > We're close to done with the warning to Error exception promotion task, > but haven't really started on reviewing and consolidating parameter names > yet (in preparation for named parameters). It would be good to have that > work mostly finalized before RC1, so we can limit the number of nominally > BC-breaking changes past RC1 (I expect we'll still fix some things that > slipped through the cracks, but at least we should prevent any mass > changes). > >