Re: PHP 5.6 Process
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, David Soria Parra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Internals
>
> It's already mid-october and according to our release schedule we have to
> release PHP 5.6 in 10 months from now. The past has shown that we need
> approx 5 months to stablize a release and go through alpha, beta and RC
> stages. Therefore I want to start a discussion on how to move forward
> with 5.6, to get a release schedule up as fast as possible so contributors
> now when to push their stuff and to vote on RFC's BEFORE the first beta.
>
> 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.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> David
>
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I agree with all of the points above.
I also think that we could be a bit more pro-active with the already
presented RFCs and try to bug the authors or chip in with the
implementation so that we don't end up in a situation where every new
language construct comes in at the last minute (before or even after the
feature freeze).
I also think that not that many people familiar with what exactly an RM
does, so I think (hope) that the lack of volunteers/candidates for RMing
was caused by the fact that most people don't know what are the
requirements for being an RM.
From my understanding it is a little bit of project management and
resolving some disputes whether or not some feature should be
approved/rejected(usually you just point to
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess RFC),
but most of the times it is
just following
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.RELEASE_PROCESS,
so
tagging/packaging the release, writing the release announcement, etc.
Personally I would propose Nikic to the post, but I would also happy if
Johannes or Stas would be a returning RM for the 5.6 release.
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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
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