Re: Proposal for release process (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.1.0)

Jani Taskinen wrote:

I have no idea who have tested the latest RC. Does anyone have?

At least, you and I do :)

After the latest RC there have been a LOT of fixes in the release branch and also several fixes in the HEAD (which weren't MFH'd) and there hasn't been any new RCs after those fixes were committed.

I guess so. I had problem with zlib output compression. 4.2.0-dev does not have the problem now, but 4.1.0RC still do... BTW, the problem is crash bug...

How many people test the branch (from CVS) ?

Has anyone kept any list of the test results and problems found ? Has anyone kept eye on fixes done which weren't merged to the branch ? Answer is: We don't KNOW.

*SNIP*

o List of succesful builds on different platforms

    - Create a build tracker to qa.php.net (Bat[e] ?)

If there is build tracker, it would help to improve release quality. For example, iconv is broken in 4.0.6 even if it can be catched by the test script.

- Make the bug system to send bug reports to php-qa list and only confirmed reports to php-dev thus making it easier for developers to notice which reports are real bugs. Huge amount of the reports coming in are bogus.

I've submitted few bogus reports also :) This should be good idea. -- Yasuo Ohgaki