Re: [mirrors] Status information

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 17:10, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > >> > >> From the list below, I see *many* servers still running PHP 4.4 - > >> shouldn't they upgrade to 5 before PHP 4 is officially totally inactive > >> by August 8th? > > > > I took note of the same thing, Derick. There's several 4.3.x on > > there, too --- including one for 4.3.4. It's over four and a half > > years behind the times. Would it make sense to have a recent version > > of PHP installed on the server as a requirement for being an official > > mirror? > > It would, but I'm not comfortable dropping 30% of our mirrors simply > because they run old PHP version. > I guess someone should write a proper "please upgrade" mail to all the > maintainers.. I think you'd find them willing to upgrade when you mention you'll drop them if they don't upgrade -- it's good marketing for them usually. So I'd go for something stronger than "please upgrade" :) And, is no2 the only mirror running 5.3 so far? :) regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org