On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:22:41 +0200, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]>
wrote:
Even if we upgrade our minimum PHP version now, older versions of
MediaWiki with the 5.3 requirement will still be supported and receive
security updates. So the only difference will be that people running
Debian
oldstable will be locked into our older version and not be able to
upgrade
to bleeding edge MediaWiki, which they probably won't do anyway
considering
they haven't even upgraded their Debian. :P
Specifically, 1.23, which is the current LTS (long-term support) release,
is supported until May 2017 (so that covers Debian/Ubuntu and almost
covers
RedHat, but that one provides PHP 5.5 anyway).
The next LTS is due spring 2016 and will be supported until spring 2019
and
I don't think we want to get stuck on PHP 5.3 with that one.
Indeed, I think this is a very good argument.
Do we want to do this now? Or do we want to fix the accidentally broken
5.3.3 compatibility for now, and then intentionally break it in a few
months?
Should the upcoming MediaWiki 1.26 release be compatibly with 5.3.3?
--
Bartosz Dziewoński
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