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Subject: supported OS/platforms
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Hi,

As per the release check list that Derick and Ilia wrote up [1] we now
have something called "primary testers". This is a list of projects per
php branch that will get directly notified of php RC's. We have one for
PHP 4.x [2], 5.x [3] and 6.x [4].

Now as far as I know the level of success has not been all to great, but
atleast it should push some responsibility to the given projects if we
happen to have a release snafu. Maybe we can make this more high 
profile, by having some buttons "official php primary tester", you know 
for the warm fuzzy feeling ;-)

Anyways I remember some discussions about this on internals (or maybe it
was a PEAR meeting) about what platforms to support. Obviously this is a
question on what the developers focus and also on what we test on.

So there are a number of different operating systems to consider, a
number of processor types to consider (or even just 32bit versus 64bit).
As for testing this is an area where some of our high profile newly one
corporate friends might be able to step up?

Especially with the emergence of the gcov setup [5][6] we also have a
nice setup to make the testing automated with pretty reports and even
visual gadgets.

So I guess I am soliciting feedback on how to make the "primary tester" 
idea more successful, how to get testing done on as many platforms as 
possible (which would probably implicitly define our "target" platforms) 
and finally highliht the cool work that was done in the entire gcov 
department.

regards,
Lukas

[1] http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist
[2] http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP4yz
[3] http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP5yz
[4] http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP6yz
[5] http://gcov.php.net/
[6] http://gcov.php.net/PHP_5_1/run-tests.log.php