Re: Plan regarding fd patch...rc4

At 10:46 20/05/2003, John Coggeshall wrote:

as we'd have in v5 (where initially, people expect things to break anyway). I think *we* expect things to break anyway, but talk to the user base and I think you'd find most of them expect the new flagship of PHP to do more than "break anyway". If your going to release PHP5 relying on the assumption that things are just going to break anyway so who cares, why bother with QA at all?

You missed the point. PHP 5 will go through betas for several months. It will be used by plenty of people who expect it to break before version 5.0.0 comes out. And if we keep ourselves realistic, most people will not be quick to move to 5.0.0 on their production servers, without first testing that everything works right. Many people will not move into a .0 release at all before at least a couple of bugfix releases are issued. All of that does not hold true for a bug-fix release such as 4.3.2. People are going to expect that upgrading from 4.3.x to 4.3.2 is going to be painless, and they're not going to put too many efforts in testing it. That's why it's so dangerous to put in a patch with such a far-reaching potential in a bug fix release, and why it's better to take advantage of the slower release cycle of v5. Zeev