Retiring PHP's Mirror Program
The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive network of mirrors to make the PHP documentation available, and distribute source tarballs. These mirrors have been maintained by members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, with few contributors helping out—PHP is Open Source, and this is simply how these things can go.
Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP 5.3.
It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web site, through https://www.php.net/, already sits behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra, which is sponsored by long time PHP contributor Sascha Schumann.
With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of https://secure.php.net, which we don't need any more), and move them behind Myra's CDN, with the same local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less administration requirements.
Watch this space for further developments!
To end this post, I would very much like to thank all the mirror maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these years. Thanks!
Life Line
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
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Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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