{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593/events","html_url":"https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593","id":55585434,"number":1593,"title":"Stabilization Phase for new releases (nightly beta-quality builds)","user":{"login":"sebastianbergmann","id":25218,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25218?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann","html_url":"https://github.com/sebastianbergmann","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sebastianbergmann/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/labels/process","name":"process","color":"fbca04"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/labels/rfc","name":"rfc","color":"fbca04"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":12,"created_at":"2015-01-27T07:38:54Z","updated_at":"2015-02-18T15:47:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"With the current [release process](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/Release-Process) for PHPUnit a new release branch is created every two months. Beta-quality releases are made built nightly from this release branch until the first stable version is released from it.\r\n\r\nGiven the fact that over the course of the first year of using this release process we have not received any feedback based on these nightly builds (at least as far as I am aware of) it begs the question whether having this two-month stabilization period makes sense."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/comments/74886763","html_url":"https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593#issuecomment-74886763","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593","id":74886763,"user":{"login":"julianseeger","id":3258762,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3258762?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger","html_url":"https://github.com/julianseeger","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/julianseeger/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-18T15:47:06Z","updated_at":"2015-02-18T15:47:06Z","body":">Tagging is really time-demanding.\r\n\r\nThe CI-Server (or whatever is used to make those phpunit-nightly builds) should probably be able to tag automatically. I don't know any sort of ci-server that is not able to do that. As @sebastianbergmann said \"Beta-quality releases are made built nightly from this release branch\" and a shouldn't every release have a tag?\r\n\r\n>But what about sth like this?\r\n\r\nNot quite sure how stable this gets. The phar would run phpunit (in version A) und that would load the bootstrap for the paratest tests which would then load composers autoload.php which would load phpunit (in version B). There are direct dependencies from paratest to phpunit (at least to some subcomponents like php-code-coverage) and I don't think we can make the tests use verion A completely. So the tests wouldn't be representative for that version and thats the whole point in the build matrix.\r\n\r\nOf course we can live with manually adjusting the version constraints for each phpunit-release but as this thread seems to be based on a whish for feedback and @sebastianbergmann [said](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1593#issuecomment-71604514)\r\n>The nightly alpha and beta releases are not tagged. But this could be changed, of course.\r\n\r\nI thought it might be useful feedback to state that there definitely is a need for more tags out there ;)"}}