On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Lior Kaplan <kaplanl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@php.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Lior Kaplan <kaplanl...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Guys,
>> >>>
>> >>> A quick question - I saw PHP-7.0.0 branch, should it be PHP-7.0 branch
>> >>> (while master continues to 7.1).
>> >>>
>> >>> The PHP-7.0.0 should probably be for the RCs (while cherry picking
>> from
>> >>> PHP-7.0 as needed). If we have this branch too soon, you'll have a
>> lot of
>> >>> cherry picking to later later on.
>> >>>
>> >>> Kaplan
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> hi,
>> >> cc-ing the internals list for visibility:
>> >>
>> >> the current plan is to not create a PHP-7.0 branch is until PHP-5.4 is
>> >> EOLed, so we don't burden the average contributors yet another branch
>> to
>> >> merge upwards when pushing a change.
>> >> PHP-7.0.0 will be only used by the RMs to tag the alpha/beta/RC
>> versions
>> >> from.
>> >> yes, this means that until 5.4 is eoled and the PHP-7.0 branch is
>> created
>> >> changes targeting 7.1 have to sit in a clone or in a pull request.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > The 7.1 changes are less of a concern, I just thought of the RM need to
>> > merge from master to PHP-7.0.0 for each release instead of just working
>> on
>> > master directly.
>> > Just my 2 cents. Of course, it's your decision...
>> >
>> > Kaplan
>> >
>>
>> even for alpha/beta releaes you will need some commits which you don't
>> want
>> to have it in master: for example where you bump the version.
>> without a release branch you would either have to commit then revert those
>> version related changes in master and pollute master's history with that
>> (this is what we used to do before started using the release branches
>> approach) or you tag from a version not present in any remote branch (we
>> did this in the past before we agreed to always push the release branches
>> so if another RM has to take over a release for some reason it is easier
>> to
>> do so).
>
>
> Are we supposed to merge bug fixes to PHP-7.0.0 branch or leave it alone?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
> yohg...@ohgaki.net
>


Hi,

as mentioned in my original mail to the list:
"PHP-7.0.0 will be only used by the RMs to tag the alpha/beta/RC versions
from."
so, no, you aren't supposed to merge anything there.

-- 
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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