Re: PHP 7.3 timetable

On 05.06.2018 at 17:10, Sara Golemon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 15:36 +0200, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> >>> Due to some pending preliminary work, I won't be able to release >>> 7.3.0alpha1 on Thursday. Unless Stas is willing to tackle the first >>> alpha, I suggest to postpone the tentative timetable[1] by a week. I >>> don't think that would be a problem, since 7.0 - 7.2 had their first >>> alphas released on the second Thursday of June as well. > > On the one hand: Timetables can be pushed, we're not curing cancer here. > On the other, that's what a second RM is for, so let's see what Stas has to say. ACK. >> By the pending work, do you mean the yet missing karma, etc. you >> mentioned in another thread? If so - actually you still could tag, >> write site news, etc. - so most of the things. With the items where >> there is no karma yet like uploading to downloads.php.net or mailing a >> moderated list could be helped. > > Indeed. Joe had key issues recently and due to not having his new key > in place in time we pushed the tarballs out of band, but they still > had his sigs and all the rest. A rough start, sure. But alphas are a > great time to make and learn from mistakes. :D That's indeed one of the issues. After quite some struggle, I've just managed to sign a tag with a quickly generated GPG key. However, I still need to create a proper GPG (including generating a revocation certificate), and of course, the key has to be signed by one or more of the previous RMs (not sure how that will work). -- Christoph M. Becker