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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4.0 rc6 and release
From: info@phpgangsta.de (Michael Kliewe)

Hi,

great to see progress!

I have some small questions, please don't feel offended, I just want to 
know and understand:
- According to this website there are still 94 test failures in 5.4 . 
Can you confirm all of them are minor problems?
http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4
- There was this problem with 5.3.7 and the crypt() bug. Has there been 
some improvement in the process of handling test failures? For example 
mark expected failures as expected failures, and fix the tests or the 
code? Or are the failing tests "stable" since month and all of them are 
minor problems?
- There have been 319 unique failed tests in RC5, reported by user 
tests. Is someone looking into them and trying to classify and/or fix them?
http://qa.php.net/reports/

All in all the number of test failures still feels very high, I would be 
interested in your opinion. Is this "normal" for big projects like this?

Again, please take these questions as normal questions, I don't want to 
attack anybody, I'm just interested in the process and relatively new to 
internal PHP development.

Thanks for your work on PHP!
Michael

Am 19.01.2012 23:55, schrieb Stas Malyshev:
> Hi!
>
> We'll be announcing RC6 very soon, and we're planning the final 
> release for February 2nd. The two weeks in between are meant for 
> testing and finding out any critical issues that could prevent us from 
> releasing 5.4.0.
> If we have none of these, we will proceed with the release. To ensure 
> this release would not have any "surprises", I am asking again to hold 
> your commits to 5.4 branch unless you have a critical bug fix AND it 
> is approved by the RMs (myself and David).
> Thanks for your help!