Re: 5.3 release schedule and other bits

Hi, On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:48 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hello, > > At Debian we are planning to include PHP 5.3 in Squeeze, the next stable > release. As such, I would like to know for example when we could expect > 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 to be released. I hope that the new release branch mere-tracking-tool goes live today, so that the new experimental release branch based process works nicer, so 5.3.2RC2 will follow shortly after (either until tomorrow, which will be quite a rush, better tuesday next week) further progress then depends on feedback from testers, hopefully 5.3.2 will be out very late January/early February. for 5.3.3 it depends on security issues being reported, bug fixes going in, ... maybe 3 months after. > On a slightly different topic, I'd like to express that I would like to > improve the communication between us (the package maintainers) and you (the > upstream developers). As a first step I'll be trying to forward most of our > patches so that there's a minor divergence. I think that's an important topic. And I think it would be good to improve communication with packagers to unify things that might be handled differently and prevent packagers from back-porting security fixes in a wrong way. I now that MySQL has a "packgers" list, maybe such a thing might be good for php, too. internals might sometimes be a bit crowded to follow ... johannes