On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:12 AM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org wrote: > On 23 October 2014 18:39, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > As part of the librarization project[1], we are planning on taking the > > CSSJanus library that is currently in includes/lib/ and bringing it in > > with composer. However, it requires PHP >=5.3.3 in its composer.json[2]. > > Krinkle has stated[3] that is due to the fact that it has only been > > tested on 5.3.3 and higher, and it's also what travis-ci provides. > > > After doing some research[4], it appears that we would be dropping > > support for Ubuntu 10.04LTS, which has security support until April > > 2015. MediaWiki 1.25.0 is expected to be released in May 2015. > > > Does anyone have any objections to dropping 5.3.2 support? I've uploaded > > [5] that actually increments the required version number. > > ​I understood that the vague plan was to switch over to 5.4.x requirement, > and that we'd only waited because Wikimedia wasn't ready yet. Has this > changed? I know a number of people have talked about wanting to use PHP > traits. Yes, but that's longer term.

This minor bump still in the 5.3.x branch I think we can do immediately.