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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:02:19 +0800
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To: Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 2 August 2012 15:56, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 August 2012 07:35, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
>> Thoughts? (Do we even want to auto-fill this from $OLDRELEASES, or
>> would we rather have a manual array?) Specific notes on
>> vulnerabilities to add to branches? Better versions of the copy in the
>> initial blurb?
>
> Why is this information not just displayed on "Unsupported Historical
> Releases" (/releases)? Do you have plans for the EOL page that
> wouldn't be suitable for the other one?  My worry is spreading this
> information across multiple places, when we already have a very
> detailed page about unsupported versions.  The X.Y version table could
> be listed at the top of /releases to give a quick summary, before the
> detail for each individual version listed chronologically.  We could
> add more notes like the existing "Support for PHP 4 has been
> discontinued since 2007-12-31." at the appropriate places in that
> list.

That could definitely work as well. I've done it as a separate page
because that was the suggestion from Kris and Larry (and because I
wasn't really sure how it would come together to start with), but
there's no particular reason it couldn't be integrated into /releases.
It probably is short enough.

Adam