Re: NEWS handling

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > On 8 October 2013 06:46, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: >> I was wondering how we are supposed to handle NEWS entries when a fix >> goes into both branches, PHP-5.4 and 5.5. IIRC we used to add the BFN >> only to the lowest numbered branch, but then again that was at times >> we had mostly onle one stable release branch... > > The way I've done it (and it seems like most developers are doing it > now) is to add the same entry to each stable branch as I merge > upwards, so the 5.4 and 5.5 NEWS files each end up with something > like: > > - Extension: > . Fixed bug #12345 (luggage combination is weak). (Adam) > > I think the bug number really has to be in each branch for the NEWS > file to be useful — users need to be able to find out at a glance > what's been fixed from 5.5.4 to 5.5.5, for instance. agreed. I never really liked the "lowest branch" only way, too confusing and hard to see what was fixed where. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org