On 07/20/2015 09:18 AM, David Gerard wrote: > What I'm answering is the proposal that removing support for PHP 5.3 > will motivate the user to upgrade their PHP, when that isn't the case. > > I recall this has been the conclusion reached on this list previously > - that this will cause problems for MW out in the world, and gain it > an unwarranted reputation for insecurity as un-upgradeable > installations get pwned. Thus, if newer MW still supports older PHP, > this results in less pwned MW. The balance is up to you, of course.
OTOH, if we never bump our version requirements, there's less incentive for hosting providers to upgrade their PHP. [1] has some interesting arguments regarding this. [1] http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/12/on-php-version-requirements.html -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
