On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com 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.