Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-03 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Stas! On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> And no BC in 5.5 as well. Which will cause us some issue for 5.5 as >> master actually has BC breaks as far as I remember. > > We accept binary API changes in 5.5, Right, that's totally fine. > but only very slight PHP-level API

Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-03 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > And no BC in 5.5 as well. Which will cause us some issue for 5.5 as > master actually has BC breaks as far as I remember. We accept binary API changes in 5.5, but only very slight PHP-level API changes (such as removal of functions like logo GUIDs). Another important point - any such chang

Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Faulds
Pierre Joye wrote: >And no BC in 5.5 as well. Which will cause us some issue for 5.5 as >master actually has BC breaks as far as I remember. > Yep. My Logo GUIDs patch removed the functions to get the GUIDs, for instance. (although this is far from a serious breakage, images can be removed or

Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-03 Thread Pierre Joye
hi! On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > I am noticing that the new way we're doing releases in 5.4 is not > completely clear to everybody, so I would like to reiterate some points. Thanks for posting this clarification, always good to send reminders like that :-) > 4.

[PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4

2012-09-01 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I am noticing that the new way we're doing releases in 5.4 is not completely clear to everybody, so I would like to reiterate some points. 1. 5.4 releases are done from release branch (PHP-5.4.X, e.g. current one is PHP-5.4.7). This branch is created 2 weeks before the release, usually on Tue