On 8/14/14, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > So we had a discussion about this a while ago, but just recently PHP let > out the final 5.3 release. [0] Back in the previous thread concerning PHP > 5.3, there seemed to be general agreement toward upping our PHP minimum > requirements for the 1.24 release of MediaWiki. > > Here are the stats: > * Soon Ubuntu (trusty) and Debian (jessie) releases will be running PHP 5.5 > and 5.6, respectively. > * MediaWiki 1.23 ends support in May 2017 > * PHP 5.4 is estimated to be supported until 2015 > * Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (PHP 5.3) ends support on April 26, 2017 > * Debian Squeeze (PHP 5.3) ends support in February 2016 > * Debian Wheezy (PHP 5.4) *might* be supported until May 2018, depending on > the feedback received from the Squeeze LTS trial >
These aren't the sort of stats I think we should base the decision on. Instead we should look at what most popular hosts support (Which will probably be correlated with what is written above). Although I don't know if those stats are easily available. Additionally, looking at Special:Version on 'pedia: PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.10+wmf1 (apache2handler) I know that's going to change very soon, but until it does, this conversation seems like a non-starter. >1) Raise to PHP 5.5 for MW 1.24 >2) Raise to PHP 5.4 for MW 1.24, and then when a release with support past 2018 is made, go to 5.5. imo, deciding what min version to require should be based on a combination of: use cases for features in the new version that we want to use, maintenance burden of supporting old versions, and the amount of inconvenience caused to re-users by the version requirement change. This seems more like requiring a new version of php simply because its new. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
