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