Re: What is the policy on removing EOL'ed versions from the php.net homepage?
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Sat, 15 Nov 2014 06:10:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the policy on removing EOL'ed versions from the php.net homepage? | ||
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We unfortunately do not control that website, sorry.
-Hannes
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com>
wrote:
> On 11/14/2014 4:36 PM, Adam Harvey wrote:
>
>> On 14 November 2014 14:54, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13 November 2014 05:37, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So what is the policy for moving EOL'ed versions to the archive,
>>>>> including
>>>>> removing the binaries for Windows? If there isn't a policy, I'm in
>>>>> favor of
>>>>> something like "when the announcement about EOL falls off the front
>>>>> page" or
>>>>> "3 months after EOL" - or both if accompanied with a phrase like
>>>>> "whichever
>>>>> comes first" or "whichever comes later".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We don't have one — I remember that we talked about this when 5.3 was
>>>> getting close to EOL (and, unfortunately, can't find the conversation
>>>> now, nor even remember if it was via e-mail or IRC), but I don't think
>>>> anything concrete came out of that besides "we'll keep it for now and
>>>> assess the situation as we go".
>>>>
>>>> EOL +3 months seems like a fairly sensible guideline to me, in which
>>>> case we hit that tomorrow for 5.3. Any objections to my removing 5.3
>>>> from the home and downloads pages tomorrow?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Remove it.
>>>
>>
>> It's gone.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
> Hmm...PHP 5.3 binaries for Windows are still here:
>
> http://windows.php.net/download/
>
>
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