Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting: Minimum PHP version

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