[Bug 1522422] Re: PHP5 branch and PHP7 branch

[Robie Basak]

We haven't committed to anything yet. The schedule is tight. Whatever we
ship we will need to support for 5 years, so it cannot be half done.

We are pretty certain that we don't want to ship both 5.6 and 7.0, so we
expect to remove one or the other before release. Based on my current
understanding I would like us to ship 7.0 in 16.04, but the transition
needs to be completed first. For 7.0 to make 16.04 it needs to have
replaced all the functions that 5.6 currently performs for us (reverse
dependencies etc) and replace 5.6 in main. If this doesn't happen by
feature freeze (18 Feb), we expect to remove 7.0 from universe, and
16.04 will ship with 5.6 only.

We can continue to use this bug to keep everyone updated. If there are
any blocking issues then we'll mention them here. I will try to make
sure that anyone interested in making this happen has the opportunity to
volunteer to fix any blocking issues in time.

** Summary changed:

- PHP5 branch and PHP7 branch
+ Update to php 7.0

** Tags added: upgrade-software-version

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.02

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