[Phpwiki-talk] GoPHP5 project, anyone?

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

Hello Reini, et al:

Has anyone approached you yet about the Go PHP 5 project yet? It's a  
grassroots campaign to get projects to drop support for PHP4.

I loosely follow the Gallery project and it looks like they are about  
to join up (see below).

~swain

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Larry Garfield <la...@ga...>
> Date: July 10, 2007 10:36:40 PM EDT
> To: Bharat Mediratta <bh...@me...>
> Cc: gal...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Gallery-devel] The PHP 5 revolution
>
> Hi again, Bharat.  It's not quite the list you had before, but does 30
> projects and 50+ web hosts count as "critical mass"?
>
> http://gophp5.org/projects
> http://gophp5.org/hosts
>
> That's also not counting web hosts that offer PHP 5 as an option  
> but not the
> default.
>
> I'm actually rather surprised myself at how much steam this has  
> picked up.  I
> don't know if you follow php-internals at all, but they're actively
> discussing dropping PHP 4 support completely within the next year.
>
> Is this something Gallery could get behind at this point?
>
> On Sunday 01 July 2007, Bharat Mediratta wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>> How's this progressing?  Andy pointed out that we should focus on the
>> high profile php4-only projects like ezPublish.  Serious hosts that
>> offer php4 only today will offer both versions when the pressure  
>> is on,
>> but it would help if there were less pressure to keep php4 around...
>>
>> -Bharat
>>
>> Bharat Mediratta wrote:
>>> Larry Garfield wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Bharat.  I can understand your position, certainly.  What
>>>> would you consider "critical mass"?  Shear number or some number of
>>>> "big" projects (for some definition of big) or...?
>>>
>>> Good question :-)  I think that we'd want to see the majority of the
>>> best-of-breed applications in various different webapp categories
>>> support this.
>>>
>>> Here are lists of apps that our affiliate web hosts support:
>>>     http://partners.powweb.com/powweb/autoInstalls.bml
>>>     http://wiki.dreamhost.com/One_Click_Installs
>>>
>>> And we'd want the top 3 hosts here to support PHP5 (I think that  
>>> they
>>> already do, but it wouldn't hurt to get them on the list):
>>>     http://gallery.menalto.com/wiki/Web_Hosting_Referral_Page
>>>
>>> If you can get 50% of those apps on board, I think that would be  
>>> more
>>> than enough.
>>>
>>>> As for advertising, I don't believe we're planning any sort of real
>>>> advertising.  This isn't a money-making venture by any  
>>>> means. :-)  We
>>>> plan to have a page/link for web hosts that offer 5.2 out of the  
>>>> box,
>>>> just as we'll list projects that are targeting 5.2, as an added
>>>> incentive for hosts to get on board; they get to appear
>>>> "future-friendly".  That's as close to advertising as we plan to  
>>>> get,
>>>> though.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  That's what I figured, but I wanted to make sure that we  
>>> were
>>> clear :-)
>>>
>>> -Bharat
>>>
>>>
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