Re: showstoppers

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Zak Greant wrote the following to Phil Driscoll : > At 06:58 PM 8/17/00 +0100, Phil Driscoll wrote: > >Hi > > > >I've not really done any qa work on the 4.0.2 release, because of time > >spent sorting out installation software, > > Same here... I think that I am going to not going to work on actively > trying to test RCs (or at least not on as many *@$#* platforms) until I > have a better grip on the basic skills needed to build and install. I have tested it fairly heavily on both Linux and Solaris 2.6. In fact, I'm using the current CVS to run a fairly big web site, and haven't yet come across any problems. > > I think that I am more useful when I am trying to organize the qa team, > performing bug sweeps and working on systems for the qa team. I agree, Zak. This is your strong suit, and you should continue to play to it. :) > > > however, I've been watching the lists for problems. > > > >It strikes me that for the Windows release, the problems reported by > >Daniel Beulshausen regarding the fact that, on Windows, php doesn't seem > >to be looking in the correct place for the php.ini file is a showstopper - > >it effectively breaks everyone's installation. > > > >I don't know if anyone else has come across anything they feel ought to be > >fixed before a release, but I suppose its down to us QA people to generate > >a list, and then either fix the problems ourselves, or alert someone who can. > > Sounds like a very good idea to me. I already made my list, and they all got fixed (mcrypt broke compile for a bit, and dbase_add_record was broken). Everything else is pretty stable, AFAIK.