Re: [PHP-DEV] What's up with emails?

2024-02-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 07:45:41PM +0100, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > On 2/22/24 16:29, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > • SPF for lists.php.net is "v=spf1 a mx a:osu1php.osuosl.org. > > ip4:45.112.84.5 ip6:2a02:cb43:8000::1102" > > Change to "v=spf1

Re: [PHP-DEV] What's up with emails?

2024-02-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 04:46:04PM +, Derick Rethans wrote: > > Make the From: address internals@lists.php.net > > We don't want to change the From address, as that means that replies go to > the list, rather than the original sender. We never had to do any of that > before. I understand

Re: [PHP-DEV] What's up with emails?

2024-02-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 09:05:22AM -0500, Derick Rethans wrote: > Gmail is rejecting emails after we moved the servers without telling us why, > in enough detail to do anything about it. I run other mail lists and have had similar problems with gmail recently. The problem seems to be SPF. This

Re: [PHP-DEV] Moving PHP internals to GitHub

2023-04-12 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 04:52:52PM +0300, Alex Wells wrote: > Based on those issues and PHP, I propose moving the discussions elsewhere - > to some kind of modern platform. Since this is quite a big change in the > processes used, I imagine an RFC would be needed. But before I do that I > want to

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote announcement] Arbitrary static variable initializers

2023-03-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 01:02:04PM +0100, Ilija Tovilo wrote: > Hi everybody > > It's been a while since I've announced this RFC. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arbitrary_static_variable_initializers > https://externals.io/message/118976 > > There haven't been many responses, so I'd like to put this

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Under discussion] Deprecate ${} string interpolation

2022-03-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Ilija Tovilo wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have tried to address all the feedback I've received for the RFC to > deprecate the ${} string interpolation. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dollar_brace_string_interpolation Could you please add, for the

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop Russian agression

2022-03-03 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 11:46:39PM +0200, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Den tor. 3. mar. 2022 kl. 20.29 skrev Eugene Sidelnyk : > > > > BTW, regarding symfony and banner, it doesn't seem to have many (if any) > > issues in github flooded. So what's the problem? > > The problem is making a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop Russian agression

2022-03-03 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 07:56:39PM +0200, Eugene Sidelnyk wrote: > If you, as PHP community, do not do anything about it, it would mean that > you don't care. Well, everyone who writes php internals is for discussion > of php internals only doesn't care and probably won't. Not true, I do care. I

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Community to support Ukraine and help to stop Russian agression

2022-03-02 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 05:43:25PM +0100, Victor Bolshov wrote: > Just one more thing: as of yesterday, in response to western sanctions and > supplies of letal arms to Ukraine from EU countries, Putin has ordered > Russian nuclear forces to switch to a special alert regime, which means they >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode

2022-02-21 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 03:52:57PM +, Craig Francis wrote: > I would personally encourage everyone to have ext/intl installed and use > > grapheme_strlen() instead of mb_strlen(), because knowing whether a > > particular instance of the string "Nguyễn" is written with 6, 7, or 8 > > code

Re: [PHP-DEV] Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?

2021-05-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 05:34:41PM +0100,  Good Guy  wrote: > With top posts people can go straight to the point raised by the poster.  If > anyone is following the thread, he doesn't need 3 pages of previous posts.  > All he needs is what is being posted by the poster in question. I completely

Re: [PHP-DEV] Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?

2021-05-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:51:49PM +0100, Kamil Tekiela wrote: > Could we drop the bottom-posting rule? Please do not change - keep bottom posting. > Bottom-posting makes reading the thread much more difficult too. I really find top posting highly confusing. Bottom (or rather interleaved)

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList

2020-06-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:22:02AM -0400, Chase Peeler wrote: > None of the above are actually true (except for the fact that I'm > overweight). The point I'm trying to raise is that context matters, and > changing terms because some people refuse to understand the context is not > justified.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList

2020-06-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:46:12AM +0200, Michał Marcin Brzuchalski wrote: > Therefore IMO we should choose a new name wisely so it can be > self-descriptive. Also: important to choose words/names that are being adopted elsewhere; thus people will recognise it as they have learned it elsewhere.

[PHP-DEV] Tiny tweak to mail list please

2020-06-16 Thread Alain D D Williams
Below is the standard footer to all list emails. It refers to an address that starts http:// - please can this be changed to https:// - which is what you get redirected to. PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Regards --

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-16 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: > Hi the peanut gallery... > > I can't say that blacklist/whitelist -> something else is a meaningless > change.  The challenge we as technologists (nevermind our color) have is > that we don't really have good guidance from

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.

2020-06-15 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:00:22AM -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > I think the time has come for the PHP internals to discuss the use of > > master/slave and blacklist terminologies. > > As everyone can see, we are going through times of change in the world, see > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Migration tooling and the cumulative cost of purely syntactical deprecations

2019-10-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:25:11PM +0200, Nikita Popov wrote: > Rather than starting a holy war over every single RFC that contains the > word "deprecation", I think we should take a look at our migration story > and possibly invest some effort into creating a "blessed" tool for this > purpose:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Strict operators directive

2019-06-26 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:00:18PM +0100, Rowan Collins wrote: > Perl is a notable contrast: the types of operands are deduced based on the > operator, but there are different operators to force them to different > types. So `23 < 4` and `"23" < "4"` are both numeric comparisons, so return >

[PHP-DEV] Error in PHP documentation

2019-05-30 Thread Alain D D Williams
I have noticed an error, please can someone with update rights fix it. https://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.character-classes.php 7th paragraph contains: However, if the "]" is escaped with a backslash it is interpreted as the end of range, so [W-\]46] is interpreted as a single class