Re: Re: PHP 5.6 Process

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:24 AM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote: > > > > > David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> schrieb: > > > > I think over the last years it proved to be good to have the current > > > > RM support a new RM who then takes over after the final release > > > > (e.g. Julien basically does 5.5 alone now, but we worked a lot > together > > > > during alpha/beta/RC). Therefore my suggestion is that Julien is > going > > to > > > > help out with 5.6 and then we would need a new RM that can learn from > > > julien > > > > on how to do things to later be able to do 5.6 on his own. > > > > > > So I mabe think Ferenic (tyrael) would be a good RM. > > > > > > I'm all for that as well :) > > > > +1 > > > > Hi back ! > > I suggest we move forward on the topic. > > We're gonna enter November soon, this is a dead line to branch 5.6. > > I suggest we branch 5.6 from master, then run the 5.5 test suite against > the branch, and remove every commit that leads to a BC break. > The task shouldn't be too hard. > > When the branch is created, the wiki then would have to be updated to show > the ideas we'd like to support (https://wiki.php.net/todo/php56) > > Julien Pauli > Hi, I was working on that last week, there are a couple of test related changes which should/could be backported to 5.5 (and maybe even 5.4): http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=ecbe4af0de94c629fa5ba8ab169654e00c958bad http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=361e984e462de5422bba5470d3961e67de327396 http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=95017c0522a9a1b9527d7cc1d866fbc3b89df7ac I have sent an email to Sara/ptarjan, but got no response yet: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.cvs.general/62834 The sole BC break I've found yet was the removal of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and co from Mike: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=423c70fb4d79b7831b1db41ea217c8e1afd5cf8e http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=449d4c0b1c6ea0f5dfe7b56c99d9fc4f2033d27c http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a3936ef4abdeb72c7d323fe4b6a65e1ae0ef181 http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d087dc0d7c88e26539646875dc0f7bb5042187b This would be a measurable improvement for many of our users with a relatively easy way to restore/emulate the old behavior ($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents("php://input");) so maybe it should be worth a discussion whether or not we should revert it from 5.6. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu