[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33381: Strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.
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Tue Apr 19 06:32:24 UTC 2016
#33381: Strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.
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Reporter: alexander.rohmann | Owner: jorbin
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting
Component: General | Review
Severity: normal | Version:
Keywords: needs-codex dev-feedback 2nd- | Resolution:
opinion | Focuses:
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Comment (by Kenshino):
Isn't Matt and team working towards getting hosts to upgrade their PHP
versions?
I can't help but see that a lot of the discussions have been developer
based and that really does not much for our largest audience - the normal
users.
8.3% of our people ( https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ ) still use PHP
5.2 and that's hundreds of thousands of sites.
Realistically, you can't tell hundreds of thousands of webmasters that
hey, now you can no longer update because your host's PHP version is out
of date.
Whatever strategy we come up with here needs direct collaboration from the
hosts -
Perhaps part of the strategy would be -
If you want in on this page - https://wordpress.org/hosting/ you have to
keep your PHP versions upgrades to a certain schedule
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33381#comment:80>
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