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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving forward: PHP 5.5
From: dsp@php.net (David Soria Parra)

On 2012-09-17, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote:
> Am 17.09.2012 17:36, schrieb Johannes Schl?ter:
>> There are very few special processes. In fact the only RM-specific
>> things are around packaging the tarballs up, while that's described in
>> an README.
>
>  Does this have to be manual process? Is there something in it that
>  cannot be described in a Makefile, build.xml, etc. instead?

Yes, merging NEWS, writing news entries, mails and generating Changelog-5
(the issue is related to NEWS). Most of the rest can be automated so once
a release hit .0 it's, as johannes pointed out, very straight forward