Re: release-qa.php and README.RELEASE_PROCESS

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I mentioned this before, and I remembered yesterday when David updated the > README.RELEASE_PROCESS: > http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=319009 : > Currently bugs.php.net uses the qa.php.net api to decide which PHP branch > are active, so what version should be listed for the bugreports. > As we didn't have any specific api listing the active branches, I guessed > that the active branches will always have an active qa version. > This assumption failed with the release of 5.3.7 when Johannes updated the > next qa version to be 5.3.8, but active => false > > > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/web/qa/trunk/include/release-qa.php?r1=314792&r2=315141 > This made the 5.3 versions disappear from the version list at bugs.php.net > : > > http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg52793.html > (check the thread or at least my comments) > As I mentioned there, always having an active qa release for the active > branches should fix this issue (there is no need having a release, just > having it active), something like this: > 'X.Y.Z' => array( > 'active' => true, > 'snaps' => array( > 'prefix' => 'phpX.Y-latest', > 'baseurl' => 'http://snaps.php.net/', > ), > ), > > this seems to be suggested by philip also (I don't know his rationale): > http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=316012 > > So we can either agree on this (and then I can revert > > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/web/php-bugs/trunk/include/php_versions.php?r1=315166&r2=315165&pathrev=315166 > ) > and update the README.RELEASE_PROCESS to reflect this (adding the upcoming > version as active on each stable release and not > adding/removing/inactivating it when we EOLing a branch/major.minor version) > > I hope this clears up the situation. > > ps: having an api for getting the active branches would be still a > cleaner, more straightforward solution. > that would be easy to implement ( returning an array in json from a config > file). > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu > bump -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu