Re: Scratching the 4.3 branch

I think we'd be better off waiting a bit with the php5 move. In general I just don't think we can push a successful release while we continue developing. If we concentrate on getting 4.3 out the door within a month, we can then concentrate on php5. Zeev At 13:33 06/10/2002, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Sander Roobol wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I think that given the circumstances, we should scratch the 4.3

branch and

stick to the main branch for this particular release, at least

until we're

very close to the release itself. The vast majority of CVS traffic

going

on these days is bug fixes anyway, so creating the branch only

makes it

more difficult to keep up - you have to keep the two branches in sync. Issuing a request for people not to develop new features for a

couple of

months (or telling them to develop in some -dev branch), will, in my opinion, work better than our conventional release process. I'm very worried about sync problems with 4.3.

Maybe it's time to opening up the php5 module then... people would be able to work on experimental stuff there without messing up the stable module. It might be a psychological thing but I think it's appropriate here.

+1 on removing the branch - to avoid problems with staying in sync with head -1 on the php5 module - it'll move the sync problems to another place I think it does solve things. When there is the php5 module for 'happy hacking', but without touching that's great for new functions, rewritten extensions etc.. while you can fix bugs on the stable, supported, php4 module. Synching when we start actively on php4 would be only needed for not-modified extensions in the php5 module. And perhaps once a month for the PHP core. THis will be much more maintainable than the little merges evry hour. regards, Derick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Derick Rethans                                   http://derickrethans.nl/

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