On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 13:22 -0700, Kris Craig wrote: > The downloads section of windows.php.net is regularly updated. It > currently hosts 5.3.3, released 10 days ago. The snaps and news are a bit > outdated, but I'd say the solution to that is to encourage more > participation, not shut it down completely.
Participation has been request b different people in different times, the git repo on git.php.net also has a few (very minor) commits for some time which have not been deployed. > I'm not sure which team members you're referring to, but I know that three > of them work at Microsoft in Redmond and are very involved in helping to > maintain the Windows build of PHP. I know them all personally; It's nice you now all of them. Does that make them a member of our community? But as said: Even if they are active and do important things. why is there a need for a special site? why can't they be praised along side everybody else? > Matt Ficken > was actually my replacement when my contract expired and I decided not to > renew. If those are the three you were referring to, I can tell you they > work very hard and are actively working with Pierre; at least, they were > the last I heard. I have regular discussions with Matt and also assigned him multiple bugs. > I think it makes sense for Windows to have its own subdomain site because > there are a number of differences between it and a standard Linux build. I > do agree that the news and snaps sections should be updated more regularly > (this has been a problem there for years), and maybe the best way to do > that would be to give more people access. That said, I think removing it > would be a bit drastic. What are the relevant differences warranting a different site? Sure a long downloads list with all downloads for all active versions is unusable, that's why I suggested a general improvement on the downloads page. Yes, we have some #ifdefs in the code and provide binaries but what's the relevant difference for users (except more clicks and having to fetch the downloads from a different continent which can be annoying for some regions) I seriously don't see this and am happy about enlightenment. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
