Re: Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6

On 7 July 2026 16:40:00 BST, "Gina P. Banyard" <internals@gpb.moe> wrote: > >There are no guidelines on what constitutes a "impact assessment". >Especially as qualitative assessments or the cost of keeping it in the language seem to not >count. I deliberately did not use the words "impact assessment". I said the proposals did not include "any analysis or discussion of the impact on existing code". I'm not talking about proposals where the discussion of impact doesn't meet some particular threshold. I'm talking about proposals where there's not even a single sentence discussing it. No attempt to think about who it might affect. Not even a wild guess. I do not think we should be removing features without thinking about who will be affected. I'm honestly shocked that that's a controversial opinion Regards, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]