Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything Ubuntu still supports?
Is there a rule? - Trevor On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Markus Krötzsch < [email protected]> wrote: > On 20/02/14 05:17, Jamie Thingelstad wrote: > >> Regarding PHP 5.3 support, I put together a quick report in WikiApiary >> showing the versions of PHP in use across wikis. >> >> https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/PHP_Versions >> >> In short, 5.3 is the most common PHP version used by a large, large >> majority. >> >> Three things to footnote in this data (and you could run additional >> queries to get the real data for these). >> >> 1. WMF itself runs PHP 5.3, so that explodes the user count a lot. If >> you excluded WMF (based on an assumption that WMF controls it so thus >> could move to newer version easily) it lowers the active users on 5.3 >> dramatically. >> >> 2. A large percentage of the 5.3 install base is there because that is >> what Ubuntu is distributing (my farm is on 5.3 for this reason). If >> there was an easy PPA solution to move from 5.3 to 5.4 for Ubuntu 12.04 >> that would also lessen the dependency on 5.3. >> > > FWIW, the next long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is due on 17 > April this year. It ships with PHP 5.5. This would be the Ubuntu version > that hosters would want to upgrade to. However, the previous LTS version > will still be supported until April 2017, so there is no urge for people to > upgrade. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > > >> 3. If you queried by Netblock you could identify how many of these 5.3 >> users are on Bluehost, Dreamhost or other system where they have no >> ability to upgrade, the hosted would have to do that. >> >> All data (except time series edit data) for WikiApiary is stored as >> semantic properties, so all of these things are available for #ask >> queries. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
