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To: "PHP Internals" <internals@lists.php.net>, "Stas Malyshev"
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:27:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4.1 RC1 Released
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:04:28 +0200, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>  
wrote:

> The full list of the fixes is as always in the NEWS file.
>

I'm afraid it isn't. You did not merge the changes from 5.3 NEWS to 5.4.

I know this is controversial and some people have been committing to both  
5.3 and 5.4 NEWS files. However, we have clear guidance for this:

   70    3. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new  
features,
   71       bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of  
the
   72       *first* to be released version with the given change. In other  
words
   73       any NEWS file change only needs to done in one branch.

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=README.SVN-RULES;h=de9d27490aecee211c07b6f6ee861d52d9f74ea9;hb=babe3ee0d2ba4f6c919bbb6710f232e6ef91e6ac#l70

As far as I remember, this was observed in the 5.2 era.

I think it would make more sense to change this rule and update all NEWS  
files for stable branches as it would alleviate the RMs from the work of  
determining which of the changes were 5.3 only, but either way we ought to  
stick to one uniform rule. The status quo (some people updating one NEWS  
file, others updating both) is not very satisfactory.

-- 
Gustavo Lopes