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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Release Frequency, NEWS, etc.
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)



On 07/26/2012 08:41 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> I would therefore like to reduce the 5.3 pace.

This is reasonable.

> The current idea would be to skip every second release (unless security
> issues demand something else) both in release date as well as version
> number.

Skipping numbers will cause short & long term confusion.  The current
number synchronicity between 5.3 & 5.4 isn't particularly obvious or
useful.

>
> Doing this has an obvious issue, though: NEWS entries are currently only
> placed in the lowest branch. With the example from above and the current
> way the NEWS are handled 5.4.6 NEWS would be quite small and there would
> be no 5.3 NEWS to check for further things.

NEWS handling is broken anyway. Now would be a good time to resolve
the issues with it.

Chris

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