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RE: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.4 From: Zak Greant (zak <email protected>)
Date: 11/03/00

James Moore wrote:
>Zak said he wouldnt be around for a few weeks so Ill try and do some of
>the organising zak has done for the last releases, including finishing the
>build tracker if he has not already done so. I also think that perhaps we
>should have a separate bug system for the QA'ers when doing QA work which
>are viewable by the developers specifically so that they know the problems
>we have. Unfortunatly none of the QA team is full time or avalible all the
>time so not every system we have avalible to us gets built on and also
>tested fully. If you have a system that is not listed on qa.php.net as
>avalible for testing and are WILLING to do some serious testing with the
>next release then please sign up or send an email to the qa list and we
>can add you too the testing pool.

Hi James,

Thanks for picking up the torch!

I hope to be back to my previous schedule in about 2-3 weeks. Most of the
work on the build tracker should be committed to the qaweb cvs -- however,
if you have any questions, please let me know.

I will try still try building the RCs - this does not (usually) take a
great amount of time.

  --zak

> Hopefully then we can catch any major problems. I think that the problem
> we had with 4.0.3 was that the release process dragged on with various
> RC's and by the time you have spent a couple of hours testing one RC you
> dont want to have to totally retest a new RC as happened last time. The
> time gap inbetween the two RC's IMHO was too great enabling too many
> changes to be added to the CVS repository. I know we have had this
> argument before but I think that there are serious benifits in branching
> at RC1 and then not remerging but applying patches to both trees. Then
> we, as the QA team can help track down problems without new ones
> appearing before the release. I know there is a lot of opposition to
> branching but I thinks that it would help us avioud another pl release. 

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