On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.org wrote:
There does not seem to have been a decision made here - is there even a process for making a decision like this?
We kind of just bikeshed it around on the list for a few weeks then somebody finally bumps it in trunk. That's what happened when we began requiring 5.2.3
While we await some sort of decision about this, what is the appropriate thing to do when we see PHP code that's only compatible with PHP >= 5.3 in code review? I went ahead and tagged a couple of revisions I saw making use of late static bindings with 'php5.3' and left them as 'new' pending some sort of decision/guidance.
Personally, I'd suggest reverting 5.3-isms until the minimum version is bumped. But I'm not about to start a holy war over it.
-Chad