Derick Rethans has a quick little post today mentioning some of the details about the PHP releases process and a few difficulties that it caused.

In the past there have been some issues with certain larger projects that stopped working when their users upgraded their PHP versions. In order to streamline things a bit the PHP QA team embarked on an effort to make those projects take part in the PHP release process.

Besides lists of projects we are also making sure that the Release Process itself is also more consistent, which should help with a more stable PHP in the end. The lists of projects are not finished yet, if you are a lead on a project which is interested in participating, please write an e-mail to php-qa@lists.php.net.

Some of the projects already signed up include: eZ Publish, phpMyAdmin, Worpress, Serendipity, and FUDForum. It's good to see that there's an inititive to get on top of this part of the process. I haven't personally noticed anything in the past, but then I haven't worked on any of the large scales that most of these projects are on...