Re: Towards 5.3.2

From: Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:50:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Towards 5.3.2
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Pierre, Actually patches were indeed missed, in fact we almost missed a security fix. As far as the wiki goes, most people don't even know it exists, let alone where to find it. Also, looking at the wiki there are a whole series of patches that did not go in into 5.3.1, that there is little indication as to why they didn't. On 2009-12-07, at 8:46 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > 2009/12/7 Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>: >> Johannes, >> >> While the separate branch release for 5.3.1 was a worthwhile experiment, I think it creates >> too much opportunity for missed patches and quite frankly makes the whole release process confusing >> and complicated. My personal preference would be that 5.3.2, not be released from a separate branch. > > It was actually the exact opposite. We did not miss patches once we > were synced. The way we tracked the patches also let us actually > define what must go in and what not, avoiding the classical last > minute bad patches. The key to success is to do not let go months > between a commit and its merge to the release branch, which was a real > pain when we began 5.3.1. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org

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