Is that the rule then, we have to make MediaWiki work on anything Ubuntu
still supports?
Is there a rule?
- Trevor
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 20/02/14 05:17, Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
Regarding PHP 5.3 support, I put together a quick
report in WikiApiary
showing the versions of PHP in use across wikis.
https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/PHP_Versions
In short, 5.3 is the most common PHP version used by a large, large
majority.
Three things to footnote in this data (and you could run additional
queries to get the real data for these).
1. WMF itself runs PHP 5.3, so that explodes the user count a lot. If
you excluded WMF (based on an assumption that WMF controls it so thus
could move to newer version easily) it lowers the active users on 5.3
dramatically.
2. A large percentage of the 5.3 install base is there because that is
what Ubuntu is distributing (my farm is on 5.3 for this reason). If
there was an easy PPA solution to move from 5.3 to 5.4 for Ubuntu 12.04
that would also lessen the dependency on 5.3.
FWIW, the next long-term support (LTS) version of Ubuntu is due on 17
April this year. It ships with PHP 5.5. This would be the Ubuntu version
that hosters would want to upgrade to. However, the previous LTS version
will still be supported until April 2017, so there is no urge for people to
upgrade.
Cheers,
Markus
3. If you queried by Netblock you could identify
how many of these 5.3
users are on Bluehost, Dreamhost or other system where they have no
ability to upgrade, the hosted would have to do that.
All data (except time series edit data) for WikiApiary is stored as
semantic properties, so all of these things are available for #ask
queries.
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