Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69538 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52901 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2013 16:57:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Oct 2013 16:57:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christopher.jones@oracle.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christopher.jones@oracle.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain oracle.com designates 156.151.31.81 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christopher.jones@oracle.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 156.151.31.81 userp1040.oracle.com Received: from [156.151.31.81] ([156.151.31.81:35363] helo=userp1040.oracle.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 30/32-39948-21B85525 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:57:55 -0400 Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r99GvpKS005012 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:57:52 GMT Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r99Gvofu023241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:57:51 GMT Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r99GvohP020211 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:57:50 GMT Received: from [130.35.70.238] (/130.35.70.238) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:57:50 -0700 Message-ID: <52558B0D.7040805@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:57:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS handling From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones) On 10/09/2013 12:07 AM, Michael Wallner 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. -- christopher.jones@oracle.com http://twitter.com/ghrd Free PHP & Oracle book: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/php/underground-php-oracle-manual-098250.html