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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:03:39 +0100
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To: Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Towards 5.3 RC
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:

> At the request of Pierre, I am tightening the commit window.

It is a special wish from, it is common sense. The changes applied
today require real testing and validations, they are likely to have
impact on many platforms.

> Please finish all bug fix commits by Thursday.
> If there are any last minute discoveries, you can ask Johannes and myself to
> be allowed to commit on Friday. The later in the day the request comes, the
> less likely we are to approve the commit.
>
> Anything after that (including commits to the test suite) will need to be
> reverted unless its a build fix. Please do not waste time doing reverts.
> Release candidates need proper QAing ahead of time. In the future we will
> try to stick with Thursday releases with a commit freeze starting the
> Tuesday before, to give two full week days of build fixing.

Thanks, that will be the only way to actually be able to valid a given
release (be beta, rc or final). It will also be nicer to the
developers actually having other things to do on the Sunday night than
fixing what other broke during the weekend. Weekend should not be
counted as "productive" day, they are bonuses if some can or want to
work during the weekend, but including them in any kind of time plan
for a release cannot work.


Cheers,
--
Pierre

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