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Subject: PHP 5.1.2 Release Plan
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Here is a brief outline of how I see 5.1.2 release happening and what in
my opinion should be included in the release. This is very much an RFC
as far as the changes go, so feel free to comment.

First the release plan, my idea is to allow minor features with
accompanying tests that do not introduce any BC issues or functionality
regressions till the 10th of December. At this point we would go into a
feature and major change lock down, till about 22nd of December when the
first RC will be made. Through out this time only bug fixes will be
allowed and on Jan. 5th RC2 will be released. From that point we would
go into the final release stage at which point nothing short of critical
bug fixes be allowed. Assuming a 1 week period without such fixes
passes, final release will be tagged, making the last RC essentially
that release. In the even critical issues are discovered, additional RCs
will be rolled.

Date Summary: (not be confused with date extension ;-) )

Until Dec. 10, 2005: Minor features and bug fixes requiring major changes
Dec. 22, 2005: RC1
Jan. 05, 2006: RC2
Jan. 12, 2006: Final (pending critical issues since RC2)

Planned Changes:

* Resolve all currently opened Engine bugs, ideally 5.1.2 will be
  released without any unresolved engine problems.
* Resolve all currently open PDO bugs.
* Enable xmlreader extension by default, as we do for all XML
  extensions.
* Introduce hash extension via a symlink from pecl into core.
	This extension introduces native implementation of common hash
	algorithms with streams support, making it an excellent solution
	for people requiring better hashing then provided by md5/sha1.
	Merits of this extensions have been discussed on this list few
	weeks ago, just scroll past the recent flame wars ;-)
* Introduce xmlwriter extension via a symlink from pecl into core and as
  other XML extension enable it by default.
* Backport oci extension into 5.1, this is mostly for bug fixing
  reasons, as the new code fixes over a dozen bug reports in that
  extension.

Ilia