I wouldn't say "consider" in releasing security fixes. I would say that we won't make any more releases except in cases of security bugs.
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Derick Rethans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:34 AM > To: Pierre > Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: > > > On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > > > > > I'd suggest something close to what Rasmus suggested: > > > > a) We make a clear statement on PHP.net that at the end of the > > > > year we plan to discontinue bug fixes for PHP 4 except > for security fixes. > > > > b) We will discontinue supporting PHP 4 on 8/8/8 (because it > > > > sounds good and gives people about a year). > > > > > > The attached patch mentions the above. As you can see, > the idea is > > > to release this on the 13th, 3 years after php 5 was > released for > > > this first time. > > > > First thanks for the patch! > > I changed the first two paragraphs to: > > <p> > Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been > released. In > those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is > fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the > way, PHP 4 > will be discontinued. > </p> > <p> > Hereby the PHP development team announces that support for > PHP 4 will > continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 > there will > be no more releases of PHP 4.4. In case security issues > might arise after > this date, we will consider making security-only releases > up to 2008-08-08. > Please use the rest of this year to make your application > suitable to > run on PHP 5. > </p> > > I think that reads better. > > Derick > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
