On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > One thing I forgot to mention: while you're considering Debian and Ubuntu > > support, make sure to also take into account MediaWiki support. > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > I don't have a whole lot to add to this argument, but the above statement rings very true to me. I think it would be a big misstep to continue supporting 5.3 until 2019. Erik B. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
