Re: [STANDARDS] Updating the specification for PHP 7
[email protected] (Sara Golemon)
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Joel Marcey <[email protected]> wrote: > As PHP 7 is around the corner, we thought it would be good to update the PHP specification as appropriate to reflect the updates and new features. We have Rex Jaeschke (who wrote the original PHP spec) available to make the additions and modifications. > > 1. Anyone have any objection to Rex doing this work? > 2. As far as approach, we can go in a couple of directions here: (1) We can create a new PHP 7 branch off of master at https://github.com/php/php-langspec and Rex can either send pull requests to that branch or, if desired, we can give direct commit access. (2) We can do pull requests / commits directly onto master. Any preference on approach here? > Personally, I like the idea of having branches for major versions, but having the spec within that branch take the pov of "Here's what X.latest does, and here's how X.earlier differed", but no mention of X-1 or X+1, as those would be another branch. This gives a balance between verbose context and relevancy, IMO. As to commit access, I don't think it's unreasonable to let Rex do it directly. After all, he wrote the original spec... Stas may have feelings on that though as he's been one of the best curators of it so far. -Sara