Re: PHP 4.0.5 Release & Midgard Problems

IMHO, this sounds like its best for everyone, *especially* the end users of midgard and php. -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Moore" <jmoore@php.net> To: "Php-Dev@Lists.Php.Net" <php-dev@lists.php.net> Cc: <group@php.net> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:02 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0.5 Release & Midgard Problems > Sorry to bring this up yet again but before we release 4.0.5 this needs to > be sorted otherwise nothing will ever happen. We have just reached 4.0.5RC4 > (which was the final planned RC) and we find that the midgard folks need to > fix some bugs with the build process. > > This will undoubtedly happen again and again ad midgard and PHP work on > different release cycles and is by no means the fault of the midgard people > but it just isn't practical if we are trying to release stable versions of > PHP and midgard is still undergoing heavy development. > > Sascha complains about the stability of PHP and all of our patch levels yet > Rasmus wants to include these extensions that are applications in their own > right, it just isn't practical for the QA team to test something the size of > midgard and thus it doesn't get tested (unless the midgard folks test it > which we have to presume doesn't happen as we get no feedback from them), we > then risk getting to a point like this where we are about to release PHP > 4.0.5 and it either 1) has to be delayed with another release cycle 2) has > to continue with a broken midgarad, neither are great but for the QA team > its very annoying when midgard, somewhat of an outside extension means we > have to do a whole new cycle. > > I propose that we remove midgard from the PHP CVS into a separate PEARC > module before the release of 4.0.5 so that midgard is never been included in > a PHP release. It will give some incentive to get the PEARC system running > sooner too. If nobody objects to this strongly I propose we do this in 24-48 > hours and then release 4.0.5 which has been dragging on for a while now. > > James > -- > James Moore > jmoore@php.net > PHP Web Scripting: http://www.php.net/ > PHP QA Team: http://qa.php.net/ > PHP-GTK: http://gtk.php.net/ > VL-SRM: http://www.vl-srm.net/ > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >