Re: Towards 5.3 RC

On 17.03.2009, at 10:59, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

On 10.03.2009, at 17:04, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

Hi, I wrote a mail last Friday about this but it seems like it got lost. I wanted to go RC on Thursday, as this now would be a rather short-time announcement (while quite a few devs already knew) this plan has changed by a week: PHP 5.3.0 RC 1 is now scheduled for Thursday 2009/03/19. This means we'll enter the pre-build commit-freeze for build fixes only on Wednesday 2009/03/18.

Just a reminder. This means today is the day to get your fixes in. Is anyone looking over Matt's patches? Also on the wiki are several open todo items: http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53#rc1 Please let me know if any items on there are already done. Also let Johannes and myself know of any show stoppers that will not get completed today. Remember this is an RC, so we should be quite serious about the quality we are releasing. This is the time for bug fixes and _not_ for features. I know there is a certain tendency to put features first, since important open bug fixes delay a release, while feature additions at this point will not. I ask everybody to pay "fair" and focus on getting PHP 5.3 out the door, rather than rushing features in now, that take away the focus from bug fixing and worse yet could add new bugs.

Ok, since there is too much last minute stuff going on and we are aiming for a release quality RC1, we have decided to move the release date to next Tuesday, the 24th. Bug fixing until this Friday. Any other bug fixing over the weekend needs the nod of one of the RMs. Build fixing Monday. Release Tuesday. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org