Re: Re: 4.2.3

At 22:21 18-8-2002, Edin Kadribasic wrote:

As long as there is momentum on the development process and on the QA process when needed, I don't think release momentum matters that much.

Right. Since the first part of the sentence does not stand in reality, the direct result is that momentum matters, a lot :) Lack of momentum is the main reason PHP releases are taking several weeks now. It's not as if people are testing it thoroughly for weeks and weeks... Exactly right. During the last release cycle, Derick made elaborate test cases, etc. but the result was not very promising. Very few people actually took part in the QA process and as a result 4.2.0 was released with some serious bugs in it.

And those who did take part were confronted with "Oh yeah, that test is not good" (I don't mean the special cases that Derick compiled, as they are more aimed at compilation). So again: Is the testkit QA-proof? Are the tests that fail, failing due to a bug or a buggy test script? See below for php-STABLE, on AIX. Especially the array stuff, where many fixes have gone and the first three fail and everything relating to aggregation fails. Since we know the OO bug test is bogus, can we remove that? Further more - how about adopting the regression tests that Sebastion Nohn has compiled? And since we're providing bcmath as a module, I'm surprised there are no tests for that.

I believe that 4.2.3 should be released, and that it should be very fast. If Derick has no time for the release, and Zeev volunteers to do it, I really see no point in delaying it further. Especially since 4.3.0 release doesn't seem to be very near.

+1 Another argument for it: Having a stable 4.2 release invites people to play with the new features in 4.3. $ grep failed ./test.out

Session Object Serialization (001.phpt)                              ... failed
Session Object Deserialization (003.phpt)                            ... failed
session_set_save_handler test (004.phpt)                             ... failed

Custom save handler, multiple session_start()s, complex data structu ... failed

References between variables in sessions (006.phpt)                  ... failed
aggregating everything (aggregate.phpt)                              ... failed
aggregating all methods (aggregate_methods.phpt)                     ... failed

aggregating methods specified in the list (aggregate_methods_by_list ... failed aggregating methods matching regular expression (aggregate_methods_b ... failed

aggregating all default properties (aggregate_properties.phpt)       ... failed

aggregating default properties specified in the list (aggregate_prop ... failed aggregating default properties matching regular expression (aggregat ... failed

retrieving aggregation info (aggregation_info.phpt)                  ... failed
deaggreating (deaggregate.phpt)                                      ... failed
Test array_merge and array_walk (001.phpt)                           ... failed
Test arsort, asort, krsort, ksort, rsort, and sort (002.phpt)        ... failed
Test usort, uksort and uasort (003.phpt)                             ... failed
Tests for floor en ceil (floorceil.phpt)                             ... failed
Various pow() tests (pow.phpt)                                       ... failed
strtotime() function (002.phpt)                                      ... failed
DB configurable error handler test (db_error2.phpt)                  ... failed
XML Parser: parse from file (002.phpt)                               ... failed
XML Parser: parse from file resource (003.phpt)                      ... failed
PEAR_Config (pear_config.phpt)                                       ... failed
PEAR_Error: default error handling (pear_error3.phpt)                ... failed
Simple POST Method test (002.phpt)                                   ... failed
GET and POST Method combined (003.phpt)                              ... failed
Two variables in POST data (004.phpt)                                ... failed
Three variables in POST data (005.phpt)                              ... failed
Testing $argc and $argv handling (011.phpt)                          ... failed
Output buffering test (006.phpt)                                     ... failed
OO Bug Test (Bug #7515) (029.phpt)                                   ... failed
Tests failed:       32 ( 24%)

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