[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2

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#57345: Bump the minimum required PHP version to 7.2
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov                        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)                        |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                                |   Milestone:  6.2
Component:  General                               |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by azaozz):

 * keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests => has-patch has-unit-tests 2nd-
               opinion


Comment:

 > Per discussion with @azaozz, this means we can bump the minimum required
 PHP version

 Yep, we talked about bumping it (about a month ago?) but don't think all
 the conditions are met yet. Generally the conditions are as follows:

 1. The number of sites that will be "left behind" (on less than the new
 min version) have to be less than 5%, not 5% per PHP version. Currently
 that number is about 8.5% if excluding old WP sites that are on even older
 PHP versions.
 2. Even if the above number was at 5% or below, 6.2 is far too soon to
 bump the minimum PHP version. What usually happens when WordPress
 announces PHP version bump is that hosting companies start to move WP
 sites to newer PHP versions. However that takes time. So these
 announcements should be made well ahead of the cut-off date.
 3. After the above conditions are met, a final decision about the cut-off
 date can be made and be approved by the project leadership.

 In that terms think this ticket should be milestoned to "future release",
 not 6.2.

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