Re: Tomorrow is an important day

Gabriel, Thank you and the internals team for their hard work on this.  As someone from the periphery I am excited about the release. Eliot [2nd try] On 25.11.20 14:41, Gabriel Caruso wrote: > Hello internals! > > I’d like to take a moment to reflect what will happen tomorrow with all of > you and how that is important to me and I’d say, to everyone: PHP 8.0.0 is > going to be released, YES! > > PHP 8.0 was the first PHP version that I had the opportunity, pleasure and > time to follow its development from beginning to end. Not only that, I had > the honour to be voted as one of its Release Managers. I first heard of PHP > a couple of years ago, and being able to help release its new major version > this year is, by far, one of the most honourable things that ever happened > to me. > > I won’t spend time talking about how much stuff we have changed and > introduced in PHP 8.0, you can go ahead and Google for talks, blogs, > documents and much more about it. Let’s get that and spread the word > outside of our community, everyone needs to know how great PHP 8.0 is! > > I won’t thank him, her or anyone in particular, I will thank everyone and > anyone that helped with this new version of PHP. Old schools, newbies, > Africans, Europeans, Americans, and of course our Asian community. Do we > have someone from Oceania or Antarctica that have contributed to PHP? I > think so, PHP is from everyone to anyone. Even known folks from PHP tools, > libraries and frameworks helped on this version, and it was beautiful to > see this bridge being built. > > Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend tomorrow’s release party, as I’ll > be (literally) flying to Brazil. I wish all the best of luck to Sara and > everyone else that will be releasing it. > > That’s all folks, tomorrow a new era of PHP starts and I can’t wait to see > what the future reserves for us! Stay safe, stay home, wear a mask once you > go out, and let’s finish 2020 on a high! > > . Gabriel Caruso >