[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
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Component:  General                              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-codex dev-feedback 2nd-        |     Focuses:
  opinion                                        |
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Comment (by SergeyBiryukov):

 Replying to [comment:142 ZanderZ]:
 > The 20% of sites that are **not** running PHP 7.1 or higher are most
 like the same sites that still run WP 4 and won't upgrade to a newer
 version regardless of PHP version requirement.

 Unfortunately, 20% is still too high a number. Per discussion in #51043,
 specifically comment:16:ticket:51043 and comment:26:ticket:51043, for
 WordPress to consider dropping support for PHP 5.6 or 7.0, these versions
 need to get below 5% usage, regardless of the WordPress version used on
 those sites.

 That said, it's not quite clear to me from that discussion whether PHP 5.6
 and 7.0 ''combined'' should be below 5%, or each one separately (with both
 below 10% in that case), but I guess we can have that discussion after PHP
 5.6 gets below 5%.

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