Johannes Schlüter wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:48 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Hello, >> >> At Debian we are planning to include PHP 5.3 in Squeeze, the next stable >> release. As such, I would like to know for example when we could expect >> 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 to be released. > > I hope that the new release branch mere-tracking-tool goes live today, > so that the new experimental release branch based process works nicer, > so 5.3.2RC2 will follow shortly after (either until tomorrow, which will > be quite a rush, better tuesday next week) further progress then depends > on feedback from testers, hopefully 5.3.2 will be out very late > January/early February. > for 5.3.3 it depends on security issues being reported, bug fixes going > in, ... maybe 3 months after.
Ok, so it looks we will be releasing with 5.3.2 + any backported patch necessary to fix important or critical bugs. Thanks for the info. > >> On a slightly different topic, I'd like to express that I would like to >> improve the communication between us (the package maintainers) and you >> (the upstream developers). As a first step I'll be trying to forward most >> of our patches so that there's a minor divergence. > > I think that's an important topic. And I think it would be good to > improve communication with packagers to unify things that might be > handled differently and prevent packagers from back-porting security > fixes in a wrong way. I now that MySQL has a "packgers" list, maybe such > a thing might be good for php, too. internals might sometimes be a bit > crowded to follow ... > Such kind of mailing list might be useful, yes. It would at least help give the impression that there's interest on improving the communication channels. That said, I think reading and at times discussing stuff here will still be needed. As for security patches, yes, it would help if for every issue there's a pointer to the commits fixing them. I recently started a discussion on oss- sec about PHP's security policy, but haven't brought it up with the php security team yet. I hope we can make a progress. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
