The more exposure the release candidate gets, the better. At least we won't find the problems after we release. We will get a very small amount of people who actually test the RC on these two lists. I don't think we need to update the official downloads page. ~ilia or qa.php.net are both fine Btw, as long as we say "Release Candidate" someplace, people will know what that is. It's a very well known term and no one will confuse that with an official release.
I think it's all about minimizing the risk of a release, especially a minor release, breaking stuff. Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Steph Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:25 AM > To: Andi Gutmans; 'Ilia Alshanetsky'; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2.0RC3 Released > > Hi Andi, > > Rock vs hard place - RC's were announced on php.net and > distributed via the download page for some several months in > the past. It led to a lot of user confusion, particularly > when there were any binary compat breakages, and the RMs went > back to simply announcing RCs on the internals list due to that. > > Isn't there any half-way house on this? > > - Steph > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andi Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Ilia Alshanetsky'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <internals@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:48 AM > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2.0RC3 Released > > > > Hi Ilia, > > > > Can you post it also on the front page of php.net? As we > are getting > > closer > > to release 5.2.0 we should make sure that we get as many > beta testers as > > possible. My experience is that internals@ isn't enough... > > > > Thanks. > > > > Andi > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > >> Ilia Alshanetsky > >> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:51 PM > >> To: internals@lists.php.net > >> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.2.0RC3 Released > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> The third release candidate of PHP 5.2.0 is finally out and > >> the source packages can be found here: > >> > >> http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC3.tar.bz2 > >> (79a9e8ecd8edcfcc033bbd49967ad47a) > >> http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.2.0RC3.tar.gz > >> (735c8f0385483afc732c09c5bb4257a3) > >> > >> Win32 binaries will follow shortly. > >> > >> Compared to previously RCs the list of changes is very > >> minimal, hopefully a sign indicating that we are getting > >> closer to the final and that things are getting more stable. > >> The two important fixes in this release address a memory > >> corruption in the new memory manager and the shutdown order > >> of the session extension. Please try this release and let us > >> know if you encounter any problems. > >> > >> > >> Ilia Alshanetsky > >> 5.2 Release Master > >> > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) > >> > >> iD8DBQFE95IGLKekh381/CERAniiAJ4nRY5cE5PY7fxPrmQuO0rTkG0EOgCeJ9BU > >> vaWVdEL27jl2dHvoKXw/Cu0= > >> =nrbG > >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> > >> -- > >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > >> unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________ > > > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
