Topic on Talk:Support policy for PHP

While it's useful having the verbage, having things in other formats (graphs, tables etc) that doesn't require a lot of cross checking would be very helpful.

Related to phab:T316080, I created Support policy for PHP/Tables. I'm not claiming it's good, or pretty, but it hopefully gives the answers (and the data?) to the first part of the "Criteria" - "New major releases of MediaWiki must support at least one PHP version for each of the following criteria".

Not sure offhand how to integrate/include it into the page, but I would like to. And then keep it up to date for supported releases of MW.

I'm not sure it's more readable as-is. Maybe I can fiddle to try to make it less complicated?

Yeah, all the text didn't need to be in the table, it looks better now. Thanks!

It was just the simplest way as I was trying to structure and gather it.

Never really meant to be "more readable", but rather being the "output" of the rules with hard numbers, rather than the vague relative-ness of the rules to an arbitrary (but unlinked) dataset.

I suspect the "Highest/Lowest (upstream)" columns can be merged for initial and EOL. It's fairly obvious from "7.2, 7.3 and 7.4" which is "highest" and "lowest"? But keeping them seperate for initial and EOL, because different points in time, makes sense?

Just maybe need to include some versions in between... Let's see how that looks

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Support_policy_for_PHP/Tables&oldid=5709542 looks simpler too now

So we now have this table, but we don't use it anywhere. Should we?