[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41327: Bump Akismet External - 4.9 Edition

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#41327: Bump Akismet External - 4.9 Edition
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 Reporter:  kraftbj           |       Owner:  ocean90
     Type:  task (blessed)    |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  WordPress.org
Component:  Build/Test Tools  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:                    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Replying to [comment:14 melchoyce]:
 > @kraftbj What's usually involved with Akismet bundling?
 A committer (only a few of us though) changes the `svn:external` directly
 in core.svn.wordpress.org.

 > Do we expect any bugs, or is it solid?
 Akismet bugs doesn't really matter for the release - although for the
 potential of them, it'd be better IMHO for the release to be made a few
 days in advance of 4.9's shipping date incase the Akismet team wishes to
 do a quick followup release. I say they "don't really matter" as if the
 release was made with 4.9.1 or in between the bugs would still exist and
 need fixing by the team reasonably quickly.
 It's preferential that Akismet be released and shipped with a WordPress
 version, to avoid a new WordPress user setting up a site, and immediately
 having an update available ("I just downloaded the official package from
 WordPress.org, and I already have to perform updates?") - we don't
 normally rebuild releases to include an updated version of Akismet after
 the release (as the ZIP hash changes, etc)

 > RC2 won't be until the evening Pacific time, so we have some time in
 which to merge things on Monday. However, once we hit RC2, we're doing a
 soft string freeze.
 Akismet strings do not end up in the core strings, they're entirely
 seperate. Additionally there are no code changes required - so much so,
 that there isn't even a commit to develop.svn.wordpress.org, only to our
 build svn (core.svn)

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