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

On 24.07.2020 at 15:02, Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> 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?

Well, I think we should proceed with the PHP 5 doc removal within the
next days.  If nobody beats me to it, I'll have a stab at it on the weekend.

Cheers,
Christoph