[development] Drupal 6 bugfix release planned for Dec 15th

[Gábor Hojtsy]

Hello World,

Ok now that we are down to an empty RTBC queue, and closing in on
Wednesday night, I could use some last minute testing from people. I
run installation and some contrib simpletests, since we do not have a
core test system, but folks testing on Windows and especially PHP 4
would be pretty helpful. You can always help by testing development
versions of Drupal so we can avoid that issues turn out in your
particular environment before a release, not after. Less pain for
everybody involved :)

Thank you all,
Gábor

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Gábor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since we have several interesting bugs fixed in the development
> version of Drupal 6, I'd like to do a bugfix release on Dec 15th. If
> you happen to have some opportunity to help, I suggest one of the
> following three options (in this order):
>
> 1. First and foremost, it is important to ensure we do not introduce
> new regressions in the system. Since Drupal 6 lacks automated tests,
> you are our testing army (this approach also known as crowdsourced
> testing). You choose whether we find out issues before the rollout of
> the new version on your live server or after. Testing on PHP 4, with
> mod_gzip, on systems where one of the top bugs were reproduced, etc.
> are especially useful.
>
> 2. Second, if for some reason you think (1) is not applicable to you,
> the RTBC queue has some nice bugs and fixes which would do with some
> verification. There are currently 17 RTBC issues waiting to be
> committed. But RTBC does not equal immediate commits, since often
> waiting on more positive feedback and the attention of the maintainer
> experienced in the field is useful to ensure it will not break your
> sites. Once again, no automated testing means we need numerous
> verifications of bugfixes of any significance to be comfortable to
> roll into Drupal. Therefore bugs being in the RTBC queue for long is
> by design unless many people jump onto reproducing the issue and
> testing the fix in various environments. A few is not enough, we need
> many. The queue is at
> http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?text=&status=14&priorities=All&categories=All&version=6.x&component=All
>
> 3. Last, but not least, you might have some pressing issues not yet in
> this queue. Due to the explained need for testing in (2) and the
> explained possibilities of regressions in (1), new bugs getting into
> the queue have less likeliness to actually end up in the upcoming
> Drupal 6 release right away. However, you might still be able to
> convince some people in the community to jump on your bug and help
> fix/verify/ensure/double-check/test-again/you know-it. At worst, it
> will get fixed in a later Drupal 6/7 release.
>
> Ps. in all cases, please ensure that the bug was either already fixed
> in D7 or is not applicable to D7 before working on the D6 version of
> the fix.
>
> Thanks for all your help,
> Gábor Hojtsy - Drupal 6 co-maintainer
>