Re: PHP Release Process Sucks

From: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:12:38 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP Release Process Sucks
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Phil Driscoll wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 01:04, Lukas Smith wrote:
>> That being said .. if there are any additions people have to give better
>> guidelines for RM's please drop a comment at the following address:
>> http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist
> 
> I've just added the following comment, which addresses part of the problem:
> --------------------
> Somewhere between the RC and the release, the release manager should
> receive email confirmation from a number of volunteers that the RC has
> been tested not only with 'make test', but on real world applications such
> as the volunteers' own code and high profile applications such as
> phpMyAdmin, SquirrelMail and so on.
> 
> The RC should not become a release until such confirmation is received.
> --------------------
> 
> I hereby volunteer to do my code, phpMyAdmin and SquirrelMail for php5 RCs.
> 
> Clearly, for this to have maximum impact we need to cover as many 
> applications, platforms and SAPIs as possible.

I like this idea. I can volunteer to do reasonably thorough testing
(both a 'make test' and real-world app testing) of 5.x releases on a
very large OO application running on Linux / Apache 2.2. It's not an
open-source app, but that doesn't mean I can't help with testing, does it?

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Jasper Bryant-Greene
General Manager
Album Limited

http://www.album.co.nz/     0800 4 ALBUM
[email protected]          021 708 334
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