On 2015-11-24, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
This week's RFC review meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 25 at 2pm PST (22:00 UTC). Event particulars can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E92
The main task this week is to plan out what we will define the minimum PHP version to be for MediaWiki 1.27 (the next LTS version). The viable choices seem to be:
- PHP 5.3 (the status quo) - this version is no longer supported
upstream, and doesn't have widespread support even in conservatively updated Linux distros.
- PHP 5.4 - this version is no longer supported by The PHP Group, but
is still part of older supported Linux distros (e.g. Debian Wheezy)
- PHP 5.5 - this is the lowest version with reliable LTS support in
In one enterprise environment I am familiar with one is stuck with SLES 11.3/11.4 with they own enterprise repository, and the newest I've seen was 5.3.something.
Saper