Really going to 5.3.1RC1

Hi,

I thought I sent the warning out on thursday but can't find it in my
internals folder therefore the notice:

We certainly should get 5.3.1 rolling and therefore I'm planning RC1
on Tuesday evening European time

I'm not toooo used to subversion therefore I'd like some comments about
this procedure:

1. Monday evening branch of a release branch owned by me
   $ svn cp branches/PHP_5_3 branches/php_5_3_1
   Question A: using php as in our tags or PHP as in our branches?
   Question B: can svn merge be used to get changes from PHP_5_3 or is a
   manual merge better?
2. Tuesday: Change the version
   $ vi branches/php_5_3_1/main/php_version.h etc.
3. making the branch a tag
   $ svn mv branches/php_5_3_1 tags/php_5_3_1
4. merge the tag into the PHP_5_3 branch
   $ cd branches/PHP_5_3&& svn merge ../tags/php_5_3_1
   The idea would be that the release appears in the
   branch's history and nothing is being lost
   Question: Does that make any sense?
5. Change the version to RC2-dev
   $ vi branches/PHP_5_3/main/php_version.h etc.

I don't understand why you are merging things back and forth like that.
Just keep it simple:

PHP_5_3 is open for any commits, php_5_3_1 is only for commits you pick
into it. And only do manual merge. Otherwise you won't be merging what
you want for real. ;)

Don't mess with version in PHP_5_3, only in php_5_3_1 where you create
the RCs from. And please, no more tags, those are totally useless in SVN
world, IMO.

--Jani

Hi Johannes,

2009/8/29 Johannes Schlüter johannes@php.net:

[snip]

I'm not toooo used to subversion therefore I'd like some comments about
this procedure:

1. Monday evening branch of a release branch owned by me
     $ svn cp branches/PHP_5_3 branches/php_5_3_1
     Question A: using php as in our tags or PHP as in our branches?

I would suggest keeping "PHP" for a branch because it will be used as
is, it can be renamed with "php" while doing the svn copy|move to
tags. More details after.

  Question B: can svn merge be used to get changes from PHP_5_3 or is a
              manual merge better?

The merge tracking is an interesting option, I would greatly recommend
using it. You can easily use the "-c" option to merge a specific
revision number.

2. Tuesday: Change the version
     $ vi branches/php_5_3_1/main/php_version.h etc.
3. making the branch a tag
     $ svn mv branches/php_5_3_1 tags/php_5_3_1

I would suggest a copy rather than a move because you may have to
create different tags (RC1, RC2,...) from this branch.

$ svn copy branches/PHP_5_3_1 tags/php_5_3_1RC1

4. merge the tag into the PHP_5_3 branch
     $ cd branches/PHP_5_3 && svn merge ../tags/php_5_3_1
     The idea would be that the release appears in the
     branch's history and nothing is being lost

There is no such merge needed, svn keeps track of copies and merges.
From svn clients, it is perfectly possible to generate a graph with
copies (tags) made from that branch.

  Question: Does that make any sense?

IMHO, No.

5. Change the version to RC2-dev
     $ vi branches/PHP_5_3/main/php_version.h etc.

This should be made in branches/PHP_5_3_1, before the tag is created.

Feedback on this procedure and svn usage welcome. If this doesn't work
out the procedure can be changed for the next release and I guess a RC
is a better test than a "proper" release.

johannes

To summarize, I would recommend the following steps:

0° Creating the 5.3.1 branch

$ svn cp branches/PHP_5_3 branches/PHP_5_3_1
$ vi branches/PHP_5_3_1/main/php_version.h etc. // Filling next tag
information, e.g. 5.3.1RC1
$ svn ci

1° Creating the 5.3.1RC(\d) tag

$ svn copy branches/PHP_5_3_1 tags/php_5_3_1RC1

2° Lifetime of PHP_5_3_1:

a) Patching PHP_5_3_1
$ svn merge -c xxxxx branches/PHP_5_3 branches/PHP_5_3_1

b) Fixing next version info
$ vi branches/PHP_5_3_1/main/php_version.h etc. // Filling next tag
information, e.g. 5.3.1RC2, 5.3.1...

3° Goto 1° unless tagging the final release

4° Tagging final release:

$ svn copy branches/PHP_5_3_1 tags/php_5_3_1

(optionally, branches/PHP_5_3_1 could be removed, but shouldn't be
"moved" as it would make a weird graph for merges/copies tracking)

Notes:
Developers commit should be made to branches/PHP_5_3 only
Release manager(s) only commit "svn merge" operations to branches/PHP_5_3_1
Tags are strictly read-only copies created with "php"
Branches are always created using "PHP"

Does this sounds good for you?

--
Patrick Allaert

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