Re: On removing PHP 5 docs (yes, I saw the previous thread)

On 20.04.2020 at 07:40, Maciej Sobaczewski wrote:

> W dniu 19.04.2020 o 16:38, Christoph M. Becker pisze:
>>
>> On 19.04.2020 at 07:56, Maciej Sobaczewski wrote:
>>
>>> I just noticed the question about removing PHP 5 docs and I was very
>>> pleasantly surprised by Peter's and others approach to do so in a year.
>>>
>>> I'll just chim in and say that I had something similar on my mind and
>>> one night when I was struggling from insomnia I already did a rather
>>> significant portion of the removals on my fork's branch
>>>
>>> https://github.com/php/doc-en/compare/master...Sobak:experiment/remove-php5
>>>
>>>
>>> Then I thought that you guys are never ever going to accept that so
>>> quickly and stopped but a really big part is already done. Soo...
>>> you know, just ping me when the time will come :) I have some
>>> experience from back then when I was removing PHP 4 bits so I
>>> believe that I should be able to finish it in a reasonable time.
>>>
>>> I only want to believe that I'm right and rebasing it on top of
>>> year's changes will not be _that_ hard :)
>>
>> Thanks for having already worked on this!  Maybe it's worthwhile to
>> provide a pull request, and mark it with the PHP 8.0 label (or similar)?
>
> I surely will, so that it doesn't disappear or get easily forgotten.
> However, I would like to work on that a bit longer before opening
> the PR, esp. now that I see there's a will and need for something
> like that.
>
> I'm kind of git-pedant so I'd like to keep it clean and somehow
> possible to review despite its gargantuic size (thus the commit
> separation).
>
> I will work on that in the next week or two, probably doing a bit
> more yet still not everything (my minimal plan is to finish the
> changelogs and start removing inline mentions, we'll see how far
> I can get with this).
>
> One request, though. Please let me know before this PR would be
> merged. If I will not be responding in two or three days then sure,
> go with it, it's open source after all :) But I would really appreciate
> abbility to have a final glance and possibly improve some things before
> this goes live.

Some of the devs and doc people had just a discussion about starting to
document PHP 8.0 as soon as possible, and I think it would be good to
remove the PHP 5 specific documentation before adding PHP 8 specifics.

Would you be still willing (and have the time) to proceed with the PHP 5
docs removal?

Cheers,
Christoph