Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:23464 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6517 invoked by uid 1010); 16 May 2006 20:35:55 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6501 invoked from network); 16 May 2006 20:35:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 2006 20:35:55 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from ([67.139.134.202:3305] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 17/BA-19568-9A73A644 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 16:35:54 -0400 Received: (qmail 28878 invoked by uid 98); 16 May 2006 20:35:54 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 ( Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.06854 secs); 16 May 2006 20:35:54 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ceo@l-i-e.com via o2.hostbaby.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.06854 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 2006 20:35:54 -0000 Received: from 67.108.68.36 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Tue, 16 May 2006 15:35:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <59640.67.108.68.36.1147811754.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <200605160807.13383.phil@dialsolutions.co.uk> References: <4468848D.5020602@php.net> <1645696871.20060515204232@marcus-boerger.de> <446916F5.9050804@php.net> <200605160807.13383.phil@dialsolutions.co.uk> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:35:54 -0500 (CDT) To: "Phil Driscoll" Cc: internals@lists.php.net, "Lukas Smith" Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Tue, May 16, 2006 2:07 am, Phil Driscoll wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 01:04, Lukas Smith wrote: >> That being said .. if there are any additions people have to give >> better >> guidelines for RM's please drop a comment at the following address: >> http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist > > I've just added the following comment, which addresses part of the > problem: > -------------------- > Somewhere between the RC and the release, the release manager should > receive email confirmation from a number of volunteers that the RC has > been tested not only with 'make test', but on real world applications > such > as the volunteers' own code and high profile applications such as > phpMyAdmin, SquirrelMail and so on. > > The RC should not become a release until such confirmation is > received. > -------------------- > > I hereby volunteer to do my code, phpMyAdmin and SquirrelMail for php5 > RCs. > > Clearly, for this to have maximum impact we need to cover as many > applications, platforms and SAPIs as possible. Would it be worth having a checklist of "must-have" software? It's easy to see something big getting missed just because "Joe" is on vacation or too busy to test, and everybody knows "Joe" is gonna test it... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm