Re: On removing PHP 5 docs (yes, I saw the previous thread)

On 24.07.2020 at 15:02, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 20.04.2020 at 07:40, Maciej Sobaczewski wrote: > >> W dniu 19.04.2020 o 16:38, Christoph M. Becker pisze: >>> >>> On 19.04.2020 at 07:56, Maciej Sobaczewski wrote: >>> >>>> I just noticed the question about removing PHP 5 docs and I was very >>>> pleasantly surprised by Peter's and others approach to do so in a year.. >>>> >>>> I'll just chim in and say that I had something similar on my mind and >>>> one night when I was struggling from insomnia I already did a rather >>>> significant portion of the removals on my fork's branch >>>> >>>> >>>> https://github.com/php/doc-en/compare/master...Sobak:experiment/remove-php5 >>>> >>>> >>>> Then I thought that you guys are never ever going to accept that so >>>> quickly and stopped but a really big part is already done. Soo... >>>> you know, just ping me when the time will come :) I have some >>>> experience from back then when I was removing PHP 4 bits so I >>>> believe that I should be able to finish it in a reasonable time. >>>> >>>> I only want to believe that I'm right and rebasing it on top of >>>> year's changes will not be _that_ hard :) >>> >>> Thanks for having already worked on this!  Maybe it's worthwhile to >>> provide a pull request, and mark it with the PHP 8.0 label (or similar)? >> >> I surely will, so that it doesn't disappear or get easily forgotten. >> However, I would like to work on that a bit longer before opening >> the PR, esp. now that I see there's a will and need for something >> like that. >> >> I'm kind of git-pedant so I'd like to keep it clean and somehow >> possible to review despite its gargantuic size (thus the commit >> separation). >> >> I will work on that in the next week or two, probably doing a bit >> more yet still not everything (my minimal plan is to finish the >> changelogs and start removing inline mentions, we'll see how far >> I can get with this). >> >> One request, though. Please let me know before this PR would be >> merged. If I will not be responding in two or three days then sure, >> go with it, it's open source after all :) But I would really appreciate >> abbility to have a final glance and possibly improve some things before >> this goes live. > > Some of the devs and doc people had just a discussion about starting to > document PHP 8.0 as soon as possible, and I think it would be good to > remove the PHP 5 specific documentation before adding PHP 8 specifics. > > Would you be still willing (and have the time) to proceed with the PHP 5 > docs removal? Well, I think we should proceed with the PHP 5 doc removal within the next days. If nobody beats me to it, I'll have a stab at it on the weekend. Cheers, Christoph