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

At 12:31 AM 11/11/2001 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:

Andi Gutmans wrote: Jani, I think in theory what you writes makes sense but it just doesn't work in the PHP project. (I'm talking about the minor versions coming out of branches). There are always cries to go with HEAD because it's got new goodies (I think it often makes sense) and then people don't want to release a second version out of a branch but want to use HEAD. All in all the release process in the past few years hasn't been that bad. I think the timing has been good and we haven't had *that* many screw-ups. What I do think we need is a couple of people who will push things forward once everyone decides that it is time to branch and start QA; so that things don't linger. Andi, If we trim down the PHP distribution to not contain as many "goodies", chances are there won't be as many cries for head (no pun intended). The distinction between the second and third digit is basically documenting to the user the level of change in a release.

I didn't quite understand what you mean :) All I said was that if you create a branch say "4.1.0" and you want to release "4.1.x" from that branch later on whilst HEAD has already moved a couple of months you're going to have a hard time doing it. Andi