Re: [Tiki-devel] Tiki trunk/master is switching today to PHP 8.1 minimum, in preparation for Tiki 26.0

A few other key takeaways from today and recent days:


1- Benoit ran https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan on the Tiki code base. As you would expect from a 20+ years-old code base, it had plenty of constructive criticism. Benoit's next step is to filter that down to actionable chunks (now vs later and expertise level required)

2- Here is a very important commit for GlitchTip work, and Smarty: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2691

3- Switching to PHP 8.1+ makes us eligible for dozens of Composer dependency upgrades. We'll do a few now if they provide a known benefit. But most of the other Composer upgrades will be done progressively after the release of Tiki 26.0, with a goal that all Composer dependencies are on latest/almost latest versions for 27.0

Exciting times ahead!

Marc


On Fri, 12 May 2023 18:00:45 -0400 [email protected], Tiki developers [email protected] said

> This is happening next week:
> https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/2711
> 
> The whole GlitchTip-Tiki team (which contributed about 200 bug fixes in last
> few weeks) will now shift its focus to PHP 8.1:
> https://dev.tiki.org/Using-GlitchTip-as-part-of-the-Tiki-development-process
> 
> Please everyone switch your trunk/master systems to PHP 8.1 and be ready to
> update frequently because there will be a lot of commits coming 
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 May 2023 15:15:29 -0400 [email protected], Tiki developers
> [email protected] said
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As discussed in the chatroom, the PHP version support is increasingly a
> > concern.
> >
> > https://matrix.to/#/!SLEgqpTNTlGYAhzNvK:gitter.im/$9_JHuXClV_DzxsyfoRB1i9iLLMcs-NJcPWUnyejOyNo?via=matrix.org&via=gitter.im&via=coeus.ca
> > 
> > After analysis, the best (less bad) option is to move to PHP 8.1 in trunk
> > now, and sprint to fix all remaining PHP8 issues before the release of 26.0
> > (ideally all before branching)
> > 
> > Why not PHP 8.0? Extra work, and many important dependencies now require PHP
> > 8.1 (if we want to leverage most modern code)
> > 
> > Why not keep 7.4 and add 8.1? This is doable but more work. And it prevents
> > us from fully taking advantage of PHP8  The time we save by testing and
> > fixing 7.4 is better invested in fixing more things in 8.1.
> > 
> > What about PHP 8.2? We'll add support for Tiki 27LTS (and maintain 8.1)
> > 
> > I updated:
> > https://doc.tiki.org/PHP8
> > https://doc.tiki.org/Requirements
> > 
> > So it will be a bumpy period, but it is the way to go. There could be some
> > lesser used features that are not functional in Tiki 26.0 because of an
> > abandoned dependency. We'll work on these for 26.1 and 26.2.
> > 
> > Thank you Benoit Grégoire for your energy and expertise here. Thank you
> > SoftStart for all the previous work on PHP8 support. Thank you to the
> > EvoluData dev team for all the recent work on PHP8, including some nasty
> > hard
> > crashes. The coming weeks will be bumpy and I am counting on you all.
> > 
> > And special thanks to the PHP community for all the innovation. The future
> > is
> > bright!
> > https://thephp.foundation/
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Marc

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