Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:65139 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70302 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2013 01:35:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jan 2013 01:35:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christopher.jones@oracle.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christopher.jones@oracle.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain oracle.com designates 156.151.31.81 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christopher.jones@oracle.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 156.151.31.81 userp1040.oracle.com Received: from [156.151.31.81] ([156.151.31.81:35461] helo=userp1040.oracle.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5F/80-65404-6EF80015 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:35:34 -0500 Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r0O1ZQ4M015851 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:35:27 GMT Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0O1ZQTd008401 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:35:26 GMT Received: from abhmt101.oracle.com (abhmt101.oracle.com [141.146.116.53]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r0O1ZQOq028235; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:35:26 -0600 Received: from [10.187.91.52] (/10.187.91.52) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:35:25 -0800 Message-ID: <51008FE0.7010908@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:35:28 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Anderiasch CC: Pierre Joye , PHP internals References: <50FDC4D8.6030105@oracle.com> <51001FE2.7090109@anderiasch.de> In-Reply-To: <51001FE2.7090109@anderiasch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC][vote] 5.3 EOL From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones) On 01/23/2013 09:37 AM, Florian Anderiasch wrote: > On 01/21/2013 11:44 PM, Christopher Jones wrote: > >> Pierre, >> >> Can you review this RFC and the votes? The wording "5.5 final >> release" needs assessing. You probably meant "first 5.5 production >> release". If anyone interpreted it as it is actually written >> i.e. "terminal 5.5 release", then the vote needs to be re-run. > > How do you plan to find out who would've taken it that way? Ask all who > voted? Probably. I suggest being practical and getting a best-effort feel for it. Lack of responses to my email is one indicator that the the community doesn't have an issue with the RFC wording. > Maybe it sounds more ambiguous for a native speaker, but I actually had > to reread this mail to get your point. I've never heard anyone use > "final" as "terminal", I have. There is also a subtle distinction between the use of "final" in "final 5.5.0" and "final 5.5". > the "final" in the software development domain > has always been the name for the version after the RCs, at least for me. That's the way I took it for my vote. The next day I realized that non-native English speakers might possibly have thought otherwise. Chris -- christopher.jones@oracle.com http://twitter.com/ghrd Newly updated, free PHP & Oracle book: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/php/underground-php-oracle-manual-098250.html