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 major Linux distros

The RFC additionally stipulates some coding standards, since even though it upgrading our version of PHP would make use of some features possible, that doesn't automatically make their use a good idea. The author broke up the feature set into "encouraged", "tolerated" and "verboten". Please read the RFC directly for more info on this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118932

Please comment on T118932 if you have further thoughts to share and/or please attend the meeting on Wednesday.

Thanks Rob