On 20 July 2015 at 17:03, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > <quote name="David Gerard" date="2015-07-20" time="12:04:55 +0100">
>> If this is all their host provides, however, this will in practice >> lead only to never-updated MediaWiki running on never-updated PHP. > Not much anyone other than the host or the user can do about that. > Certainly nothing we (MW devs and/or WMF) can. What I'm answering is the proposal that removing support for PHP 5.3 will motivate the user to upgrade their PHP, when that isn't the case. I recall this has been the conclusion reached on this list previously - that this will cause problems for MW out in the world, and gain it an unwarranted reputation for insecurity as un-upgradeable installations get pwned. Thus, if newer MW still supports older PHP, this results in less pwned MW. The balance is up to you, of course. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
