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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:47:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] release process with git
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 08:54, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 5.4.1 will be the first release we're releasing using our new git setup.
> I would like to refine a process that we used to have for releases and
> make small tweaks hopefully to allow us more predictable release
> schedule and faster releases.
> What I am proposing is the following:
> 1. At the start of the cycle, PHP-5.4.X is branched off PHP-5.4. This is
> done on Monday/Tuesday (days can be tweaked back&forth a bit, but I
> assume we'll usually release on Thursday and count back from that).

(tiny hijacking).

The whole point of releasing on Thursdays is so sysadmins have the
chance to update their servers in the event of known security problems
"before the weekend".
This point however becomes void when we release late Thursdays evening
American time, and we could just as well release on Saturday nights as
noone in Europe will be able to update their servers, and the
Americans will probably not be updating theirs either when they notice
the release Fridays after lunch.

Even keeping in mind most sysadmins probably use distro packages,
these packages won't be built by their maintainers late Fridays and
therefore never rolled out to the public until after the weekend.

If we however switch to Tuesdays we atleast give the sysadmins (and
package builders) a fighting chance of not needing to decide between
running possibly very unsecure environment over the weekend or risk
breaking the production environment due to unforeseen mishaps.

Could we swap the release day to Tuesday?
Or atleast very very very very early morning Thursdays?

-Hannes