Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-19 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Phil, Based on past experience in dealing with primary testers we usually only get responses when things go bad, as such waiting for positive responses until rolling the final is not practical in my opinion. I think the best I can propose is that we give testers at least one week to try

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-19 Thread Edin Kadribasic
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Phil, Based on past experience in dealing with primary testers we usually only get responses when things go bad, as such waiting for positive responses until rolling the final is not practical in my opinion. I think the best I can propose is that we give testers at

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-19 Thread Brion Vibber
Brian Moon wrote: Phil Driscoll wrote: Please add and/subtract to/from the above lists. MediaWiki [snip] Those are the big in their space. We use MediaWiki daily in our company. We're already testers. Note that MediaWiki uses few (if any) $_POST arrays, so we encountered no problems

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-18 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:59, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Let's keep this number of lists to the minimum. Thanks to Lukas, we already have a wiki with all this information, lets keep using it, the release process is complex enough already without having to scramble around looking for information

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-18 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Phil Driscoll wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:59, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Let's keep this number of lists to the minimum. Thanks to Lukas, we already have a wiki with all this information, lets keep using it, the release process is complex enough already without

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Markus Fischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Driscoll wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Richard Lynch wrote: Would it be worth having a checklist of must-have software? It's easy to see something big getting missed just because Joe is on vacation or too busy to test, and everybody

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Markus Fischer wrote: Is there any software out there which uses PHPUnit(2)? So those automatic suites could be used as well. I have brought this up before. Sebastian Nohn has taken up this idea and set up a box that checks out PHP from CVS, builds it, and then runs make test as well as the

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Robin Ericsson
On 5/17/06, Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have brought this up before. Sebastian Nohn has taken up this idea and set up a box that checks out PHP from CVS, builds it, and then runs make test as well as the unit tests of projects like PHPUnit and the Zend Framework. The big

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Robin Ericsson wrote: The big whohoo would be a complete PHPUnit test framework for PHP with code coverage that replaces the old test framework. As long as PHPUnit cannot run each test in a new PHP interpreter process this would make no sense. And even then, why would we want to replace

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Phil Driscoll
Lukas To move this process forward, is there any chance that you could make a few changes to http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist? First add an extra item to 'Getting the Release Candidate out there' saying: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to notify the primary testers to get testing. An

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Lukas Smith
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: I'm not necessarily suggesting that a release be delayed because *my* application doesn't work, I'm just offering to test RCs against it and report any bugs that it turns up. If the bug is found to be with PHP and is sufficiently serious, then perhaps the release

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Greg Beaver
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. Sadly, this does not seem to work. Maybe because nobody from the projects feels

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread bertrand Gugger
Bonjour, Greg Beaver wrote: Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. Sadly, this does not seem to work. Maybe because nobody

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Lukas Smith
Phil Driscoll wrote: To move this process forward, is there any chance that you could make a few changes to http://oss.backendmedia.com/ReleaseChecklist? I have added a link to your post as a comment in the page. Since I am not an RM I will leave it to Ilia and Derick to incorporate these

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Martin Jansen
On Tue May 16, 2006 at 09:5439PM +0100, Phil Driscoll wrote: I guess as well as a software list, we need an important platform list so we know that an RC has been exercised on at least: Linux X86 Apache module Linux X86_64 Apache module BSD Apache module Solaris Apache module Windows

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Brian Moon
OS X, preferably both on the Intel- and the PowerPC-platform. Oh yes. I need to be able to develop on my MacBook Pro. -- Brian Moon - http://dealnews.com/ Its good to be cheap =) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 16:47, Martin Jansen wrote: OS X, preferably both on the Intel- and the PowerPC-platform. added to http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/primarytesters.html :) -- Phil Driscoll -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Pierre
On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:19:06 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Driscoll) wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 16:47, Martin Jansen wrote: OS X, preferably both on the Intel- and the PowerPC-platform. added to http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/primarytesters.html :) Why don't you ask for an

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Let's keep this number of lists to the minimum. Thanks to Lukas, we already have a wiki with all this information, lets keep using it, the release process is complex enough already without having to scramble around looking for information on dozens of websites. On 17-May-06, at 12:19 PM,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread Sean Coates
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Let's keep this number of lists to the minimum. Thanks to Lukas, we already have a wiki with all this information, lets keep using it, the release process is complex enough already without having to scramble around looking for information on dozens of websites.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-17 Thread bertrand Gugger
Bonsoir Pierre wrote: Why don't you ask for an access to the wiki and update this list there? -- Pierre You need access to that ? -- toggg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
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

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 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:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Phil, Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 9:07:13 AM, you 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 13:51, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. If you want to be part of this group ask Lukas to add you to the wiki page that can

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. Sadly, this does not seem to work. Maybe because nobody from the projects feels responsible? -- Sebastian

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Brian Moon
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. If you want to be part of this group ask Lukas to add you to the wiki page that can be found here:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, May 16, 2006 2:07 am, 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Phil Driscoll
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Richard Lynch wrote: Would it be worth having a checklist of must-have software? It's easy to see something big getting missed just because Joe is on vacation or too busy to test, and everybody knows Joe is gonna test it... Yes, so we need a list plus at least

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, May 16, 2006 8:04 am, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: For every RC we already send an e-mail to about 12 projects asking them to test their code against the release and let us know of any issues that come up. Sadly, this does not seem to work. Maybe because nobody

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Brian Moon
Phil Driscoll wrote: Please add and/subtract to/from the above lists. MediaWiki Mambo/Joombla/Nuke Those are the big in their space. We use MediaWiki daily in our company. -- Brian Moon - http://dealnews.com/ Its good to be cheap =) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-16 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 2:12 am, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: 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

[PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello, okay, mistakes happen everyday but it really sucks that PHP.net continues trying to hide mistakes. 1) PHP 5.1.4 was released with a nonsense announcement claiming that there was only a problem with POST arrays or POST fileuploads. - In reality a paid Zend developer had destroyed the

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
On 15-May-06, at 9:39 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: Hello, okay, mistakes happen everyday but it really sucks that PHP.net continues trying to hide mistakes. 1) PHP 5.1.4 was released with a nonsense announcement claiming that there was only a problem with POST arrays or POST fileuploads. - In

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Hey, The code in the release did not change on bit, the only change was the inclusion of the missing phar file, this hardly warrants 5.1.5 or even 5.1.4pl1. This will have no impact of people who have already downloaded and installed PHP, nor will this impact people who have yet to download

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: The code in the release did not change on bit, the only change was the inclusion of the missing phar file, this hardly warrants 5.1.5 or even 5.1.4pl1. This will have no impact of people who have already downloaded and installed PHP, nor will this impact people who have

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Steph Fox
Stefan, Ironically after that incident another Zend man came forward and dares to say I don't trust our core testers anymore He dared to say it because there's a QA mechanism in place that isn't working - AKA a bunch of application developers testing Release Candidates on their real-world

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
Stefan, I don't see why this attack is directed at Zend people working on PHP, where the release process is completely a community driven effort (and last time I checked, no enterprise was involved in that process either). I agree the release process isn't perfect yet, and it becomes

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
On 15-May-06, at 11:50 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: Hey, The code in the release did not change on bit, the only change was the inclusion of the missing phar file, this hardly warrants 5.1.5 or even 5.1.4pl1. This will have no impact of people who have already downloaded and installed PHP,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello Andi, I don't see why this attack is directed at Zend people working on PHP, where the release process is completely a community driven effort (and last time I checked, no enterprise was involved in that process either). Well I don't see why Zend people commit code that obviously broke a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 09:32 AM 5/15/2006, Stefan Esser wrote: Hello Andi, I don't see why this attack is directed at Zend people working on PHP, where the release process is completely a community driven effort (and last time I checked, no enterprise was involved in that process either). Well I don't see why

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Dmitry Stogov
-Original Message- From: Stefan Esser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:32 PM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks Hello Andi, I don't see why this attack is directed at Zend people working on PHP, where

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Hey Andi My point was that this has nothing to do with Zend or not Zend. My point is not that someone from Zend broke it, but that someone from Zend blamed the community that THEY failed to find the problem. I thought Zend is enough into PHP to test their own products against RC's, too. It makes

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello Dmitry, It was my bug. I am writing a lot of code for PHP and as result do some bugs. I don't know a man who never does bugs. Exactly. I (we) appreciate your work and the point was not that you broke it. Like I replied to Andi, I also broke unserialize() in one of the 4.3 releases in

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 15.05.2006 21:10, Stefan Esser wrote: Hey Andi My point was that this has nothing to do with Zend or not Zend. My point is not that someone from Zend broke it, but that someone from Zend blamed the community that THEY failed to find the problem. I thought Zend is enough into PHP to test

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 15.05.2006 21:17, Stefan Esser wrote: Hello Dmitry, It was my bug. I am writing a lot of code for PHP and as result do some bugs. I don't know a man who never does bugs. Exactly. I (we) appreciate your work and the point was not that you broke it. Like I replied to Andi, I also broke

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Antony Dovgal wrote: So it makes me a bit angry when someone who did nothing (except for a couple of mails to internals@) for PHP since December starts treating me and Dmitry (who's one of the most active PHP contributors) like a millionaires who earned their millions from poor PHP community.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
So it makes me a bit angry when someone who did nothing (except for a couple of mails to internals@) for PHP since December starts treating me and Dmitry (who's one of the most active PHP contributors) like a millionaires who earned their millions from poor PHP community. Tony, you have

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Now this is an unfair argument as Stefan cannot (for whatever reasons) commit his work to cvs.php.net. Strike that, I was educated about this on IRC just now. My initial point is still valid to some degree, IMHO: just because Stefan's work does not go into

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
Stefan, If anything, that was a good drill on why it's not a good idea to write sarcastic, negative emails to people. Unless of course, your aim is to annoy them into starting a heated threads. You've raised some good points in your original email, and it's a shame you diluted your message

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Steph Fox
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Now this is an unfair argument as Stefan cannot (for whatever reasons) commit his work to cvs.php.net. Strike that, I was educated about this on IRC just now. My initial point is still valid to some degree, IMHO: just because Stefan's work does not go into cvs.php.net

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Esser
Zeev, Instead of discussing the points, we're discussing these pointless topics of who contributes more. I suggest we stop here, I think it's absurd to question the level of contribution from any of you three. You are right. The discussion can stop here. Antony once again proved every single

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Stefan, Monday, May 15, 2006, 6:32:25 PM, you wrote: Hello Andi, I don't see why this attack is directed at Zend people working on PHP, where the release process is completely a community driven effort (and last time I checked, no enterprise was involved in that process either). Well

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 21:29 15/05/2006, Stefan Esser wrote: Zeev, Instead of discussing the points, we're discussing these pointless topics of who contributes more. I suggest we stop here, I think it's absurd to question the level of contribution from any of you three. You are right. The discussion can stop

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Release Process Sucks

2006-05-15 Thread Lukas Smith
Marcus Boerger wrote: To rephrase Andi So people screw up. I prefer having the occasional screw up then less people helping out. We are a community [...] What we need is more helping hands and less comlaining notes. Actually we are constantly working on increasing or QA efforts. And from my