[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33381: Strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.

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#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 jdgrimes):

 Replying to [comment:119 seancjones]:
 > @jdgrimes Great document! I modified it, hope you don't mind. It's in a
 Gist. Feel free to fork and make any changes. If you recommend a better
 location I'll put it there.
 >
 > [https://gist.github.com/smcjones/6a46957b6a89568243350ac0f395db85]

 Cool. I agree with @Sobak that we're probably going to want a full repo
 for this though. Not only does it support PRs, but it also allows us to
 break out discussion of each point into separate issues, instead of
 continuing to grow this already huge ticket. Eventually that should
 probably be under the WordPress organization on GitHub, but I guess there
 is nothing stopping us from going ahead and creating a repo, that can be
 transferred to there later.

 > I reference colors in the gist.

 I think this is an interesting idea. I think we're still a way from the
 point where we could do the yellow vs green though. Eventually it might be
 nice, but it requires user education, and we still need to test the waters
 regarding how easy/beneficial it is going to be to educate users about
 this. Even if the core devs admit that some education effort here might be
 necessary, I think that they'll probably want to keep that to a minimum.

 So I think we should focus on starting small, just educating those users
 who are using the oldest version of PHP, and see how that goes. Then we
 could think about green and yellow users.

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 For those who didn't see, @jorbin brought this up in
 [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/03/03/dev-chat-summary-march-
 1st-4-7-3-week-5/ the last core dev chat in Slack], suggesting that
 version support procedures for all of the different technologies used by
 WordPress should be discussed at the upcoming community summit. High-five
 to him for his continued willingness to wrestle with this stuff.

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