On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Trevor Parscal > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I propose we drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, if possible. > > > Agreed, but right now both Debian oldstable and Ubuntu LTS are running on > PHP 5.3. I'm pretty sure (last time I checked) that both reach their EOL > sometime this summer, like in July or something. Once that happens we can > safely stop supporting 5.3 with the next MediaWiki release.
Ubuntu Server LTS versions have 5 years of support, so 12.04 will not be EOL until April of 2017. PHP 5.3 will be EOL in July of 2014. I'm sure that 3 year difference will be a major pain point for the Ubuntu security team. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
