Re: [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList

From: Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:52:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList
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Den 2020-06-16 kl. 14:14, skrev Michał Brzuchalski:

Hi Internals,

I'd like to start a discussion period for my RFC which proposes to change
the use of "blacklist" in Opcache configuration with better
self-descriptive terminology.

The RFC is here https://wiki.php.net/rfc/change-terminology-to-excludelist

Discussions should remain on the list.
Any emails sent directly are likely to be replied to on the list.

Cheers,
Michał Marcin Brzuchalski


Hi,

Some comments:
- I miss from this RFC how it affects documentation if any and with that
  how it affects translation of the documentation. So even if it's a small
  effort to change a few lines in the INI file, it might be bigger doing it in
  the documentation and also come up with good translations to other
  languages.
- I assume that there is a limited amount of people working with INI files,
  primarily sysadmins and to some degree developers and they are not
  doing it everyday. So is it fair to assume that it's a limited amount of
  people working with INI files and they are not doing it every day?
- In a hosting environment where this INI file lives it's fair to assume that
  multiple versions of PHP are hosted, e.g. today it can be both 5.6 and 7.x.
  So for the sysadmin there will be different names for same functionality
  in the INI file when 8.0 comes out.
- As a side note, the default version shipped with the recent CentOS 7.8
  version, it's PHP 5.4.

I also think it's a bit premature to jump on this wagon for several reasons.

r//Björn L

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