On 24 October 2014 08:41, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:12 AM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org > > > wrote: > > > On 23 October 2014 18:39, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > As part of the librarization project[1], we are planning on taking the > > > CSSJanus library that is currently in includes/lib/ and bringing it in > > > with composer. However, it requires PHP >=5.3.3 in its > composer.json[2]. > > > Krinkle has stated[3] that is due to the fact that it has only been > > > tested on 5.3.3 and higher, and it's also what travis-ci provides. > > > > > > After doing some research[4], it appears that we would be dropping > > > support for Ubuntu 10.04LTS, which has security support until April > > > 2015. MediaWiki 1.25.0 is expected to be released in May 2015. > > > > > > Does anyone have any objections to dropping 5.3.2 support? I've > uploaded > > > [5] that actually increments the required version number. > > > > > > > I understood that the vague plan was to switch over to 5.4.x > requirement, > > and that we'd only waited because Wikimedia wasn't ready yet. Has this > > changed? I know a number of people have talked about wanting to use PHP > > traits. > > > > > Yes, but that's longer term. >
How much longer? 1.25 is May 2015; Wikimedia's ZAP -> HAT migration is nominally to be finished within a month… > This minor bump still in the 5.3.x branch I think we can do immediately. > Sure, if announcing a 1.25 dependency change and then changing the change later won't disrupt people too much. (Copying the main MediaWiki-l list for those who don't follow wikitech-l) J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
