[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core master now requires PHP 7.0 or HHVM

2018-05-25 Thread Kunal Mehta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, MediaWiki core's master branch now requires a minimum of PHP 7.0 or HHVM[1], as decided upon in the RfC. CI has been updated no longer run PHP 5.5 tests. There are already quite a few patches[2] to remove code that isn't necessary now, or

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-CodeSniffer 19.0.0 and 20.0.0 released

2018-05-25 Thread Kunal Mehta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello! With MediaWiki core now requiring PHP 7.0 or HHVM as the minimum version, CodeSniffer will now also require the same, and targets those versions as the minimum for the code it will be checking starting with version 20.0.0. 19.0.0 contains

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcing the Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement team

2018-05-25 Thread Tony Sebro
This sounds very exciting. Congrats all around, and three cheers for supporting our external FOSS developer community! :) On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Victoria Coleman wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > to better serve the technical communities that build free and open