Maybe not a firm rule, but something worth being aware of. Lots of people use LTSes, so it'd be nice to not break them without some upgrade path :)
-Chad On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
