Re: Re: PHP 5.6 Process

From: Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:03:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 5.6 Process
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Julien Pauli <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Sherif Ramadan <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:24 AM, David Soria Parra <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > > David Soria Parra <[email protected]> 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
>> >
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>> Hi back !
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>> I suggest we move forward on the topic.
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>> We're gonna enter November soon, this is a dead line to branch 5.6.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>
> 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):
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=ecbe4af0de94c629fa5ba8ab169654e00c958bad
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=361e984e462de5422bba5470d3961e67de327396
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> 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 $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
> and co from Mike:
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=423c70fb4d79b7831b1db41ea217c8e1afd5cf8e
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=449d4c0b1c6ea0f5dfe7b56c99d9fc4f2033d27c
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a3936ef4abdeb72c7d323fe4b6a65e1ae0ef181
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> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d087dc0d7c88e26539646875dc0f7bb5042187b
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> This would be a measurable improvement for many of our users with a
> relatively easy way to restore/emulate the old behavior
> ($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.
>

Mmmm, that's a break anyway, even if we provide solutions against it.
Can we afford it ?


Anyway, we should branch this week please.
I can give time this week to help on stuff, unfortunately I wont have time
this week-end but next one :-p


Julien.Pauli


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