hi, 2010/11/23 Ilia Alshanetsky <i...@prohost.org>: > I think support 5 or even 3 parallel versions will be highly > impractical and extra-ordinarily challenging. I think we need a plan > that limits us to 2 versions and perhaps a 3rd one for critical > security fixes only.
Yes, that's what the two examples tried to show. Also reducing the bugs fixing period (move earlier to security mode only) could help a lot. Having one release in bugs fixes mode and two in security only is not too much work. The one thing we have to improve to achieve this goal (be 2 or 3 active versions) is to share tests infrastructure. At our labs we are working on improving our tests platforms with more BC tests, performance/stress tests and apps testing using the usual apps (wp, joomla, drupal, etc.) with setup and usage. We would like to add frameworks too soonish, but for that we would prefer to work with the framework directly. Doing so will let us tests a RC withing a couple of days with a high level of confidence. I also think that with a bug fixes and security only mode will reduce a release period to a month (2 RCs) for 99% of the releases. Feel free to ping me if you are one of the QA lead/lead of a framework or app and have a tests suite ready to be used. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
