Re: [PHP4BETA] Draft for PHP 4.0 Beta 1 page

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > I think that's silly. We should just have php@lists.php.net, and > > php-dev@lists.php.net, with php3@lists.php.net simply being transitioned > > over to the new name. (At the very least, don't bother splitting the > > php-dev list. Just kill php4beta.) > > Yeah, I agree with that, except it would be good to keep the php3 and php4 > users separate for a while. There is going to be a whole whack of "this > doesn't work" sort of messages for the early php4 releases and having them > mixed in with the daily php3 flood is going to be overwhelming. But > perhaps that's what you were suggesting. Keep PHP3 people on php3@ for > now and create php@ for PHP4 issues and transition the PHP3 people to the > php@ list when most of the php4 growing pains have dissipated. So: PHP 4 users will join php@lists.php.net, development discussions will be moved to php-dev. In that case we should probably encourage some subject standards for things relating strictly to just one of the versions, for example "PHP4: foo". - Stig