Re: PHP 5.4.1 RC1 Released
| From: | Christopher Jones | Date: | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:34:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 5.4.1 RC1 Released | ||
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On 3/30/12 12:52 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
Hi!Pre git, I would have strongly voted that when a fix was merged to a branch then that branch's NEWS file should be updated. At release time the NEWS file would be already be complete. Snapshots would also be consistent between code & NEWS. This process differs from the documented one. With the way our git repo is configured, I don't know if this causes merging issues. NB the wiki gives git settings for NEWS: $ git config merge.NEWS.name "Keep the NEWS file" $ git config merge.NEWS.driver 'touch %A' Chris -- Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/I know this is controversial and some people have been committing to both 5.3 and 5.4 NEWS files. However, we have clear guidance for this:OK, we need to have specific policy on it, because I'm hearing people having contradictory opinions on that.