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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:37:16 +0200
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To: Michael Wallner <mike@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS handling
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for your feedback! I fixed NEWS for the upcoming releases.
>> Please let us have an eye on it in the future!
>
> Okay -- looking at NEWS.GIT-RULES it actually says the opposite:
>
> 2. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new features,
>       bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of the
>       *first* to be released version with the given change. In other words
>       any NEWS file change only needs to done in one branch.
>
> How about changing it to:
>
> 2. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new features,
>       bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of *any
>       stable release* version with the given change. In other words,
>       news about a bug fix which went into PHP-5.4, PHP-5.5 and master
>       should be noted in both PHP-5.4/NEWS and PHP-5.5/NEWS but
>       not master, which is not a public released version yet.
>
> PS: I post that for other people that had not time to notice this
> discussion and I will most probably give a week or so for others to
> speek up before changing any settled rules. Could well be there are
> people who do not want to write two NEWS entries :)

+1

And maybe we should begin to consider to force the new commit message
format? (see https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow#new_commit_message_format),
may need a RFC and be done, almost :)


-- 
Pierre

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