# Quick missing NEWS entry questions

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/57139
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- Started by Andrew Curioso on 2011-12-28T16:17:13+00:00
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## #57139 — Andrew Curioso — 2011-12-28T16:17:13+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/57139#57139

Hi everyone,

I'll try to make this quick with easy questions since everyone is so busy.

I contributed some minor but non-trivial code to 5.4 but I was (am) a bit
new to the project and I didn't know to put an entry in NEWS.
But there is a reference in UPGRADING because my change did effect
backwards compatibility a tiny bit.

My question is, should I go back and edit NEWS to put my change in? It
would go under "PHP 5.4.0 Alpha 1"

And if I do put it in, do I put it in both trunk and branches/PHP_5_4 ?

Also, everyone is using first names only in NEWS but Andrew is not unique
in the file, should I use my full name, full, first name + initial?

Sorry, this is out of the blue and in the grand scheme of things you have
more important stuff to worry about, but I would like to be included in
NEWS is everyone thinks it is a good idea.

Side note: I kind of dropped off since then because the noise from the
mailing list was too much to handle and I didn't know where to start. I do
definitely want to help out more though.

Thanks,

- Andrew

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## #57167 — Stas Malyshev — 2012-01-02T20:10:43+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/57139#57167 · In reply to: #57139

Hi!

> My question is, should I go back and edit NEWS to put my change in? It
> would go under "PHP 5.4.0 Alpha 1"

Generally, each substantial change should be in the NEWS under the 
version in which it appeared (for 5.4, all pre-release versions will be 
consolidated on release).

> And if I do put it in, do I put it in both trunk and branches/PHP_5_4 ?

No, only 5.4 as it's the first version it appeared in (in trunk, it's 
not NEWS anymore).

> Also, everyone is using first names only in NEWS but Andrew is not unique
> in the file, should I use my full name, full, first name + initial?

I'd advise the full name. First name only is usually used by people who 
are frequent committers so it is known who exactly that is.
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