Well, the idea is to make the ISPs aware when/if we actually agree to something. "We're thinking about dropping PHP 5 eventually" isn't as quite persuasive as "We're dropping PHP 5 on X date, just so you know..." :-) Emailing Jonah was on my to do list for tonight, but unless Ken's already talked to him I'm going to hold until tomorrow night in case anyone else wants to throw in a comment here (or a tomato, if appropriate). Dries, is this something we'd have your permission/blessing/veto on? As for me being ambitious, well, guilty as charged. :-) I spoke to Larry Masters, the CakePHP founder/project lead, at php|tek last week. He said they were already looking to drop PHP 4 support for their 2.0 release, but would be willing to sign on to such a group effort if it got off the ground. On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Bob wrote:
I guess it'd be good to make a bunch of ISPs aware of this too, might kick some arse and get some long overdue server upgrades on track!
On 23/05/07, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
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I received a private note from Larry Garfield this morning based on something I posted online, so it's time to make it more public.
Jonah Braun, who is on Joomla's security team and the 1,5 core team works in my office. When I came back from DrupalCON, I toid him that Rasmus had asked Drupal to drop support for PHP4. Jonah immediately took to the idea, and here's what he saw as the challenges.
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson