Re:PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life
by snowwrestler on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:20PM
(#20479932)
Basic maintenance is not trend-chasing. Keeping your software up to date on a web-facing server is basic maintenance.
If you don't update your software regularly, then future updates get harder and harder. Unfortunately, future updates might include security patches that are critical. At that point your choices are both bad: do a major catch-up update under crisis mode, or decline the update and roll the dice on a security incident (which will put you into crisis mode if if happens).
Incremental LAMP stack updates are so easy... they rarely break things, and there are so many other people doing the same thing, there is tons of community advice and help. If a developer is not capable of doing that, what ARE they capable of doing?
If you don't update your software regularly, then future updates get harder and harder. Unfortunately, future updates might include security patches that are critical. At that point your choices are both bad: do a major catch-up update under crisis mode, or decline the update and roll the dice on a security incident (which will put you into crisis mode if if happens).
Incremental LAMP stack updates are so easy... they rarely break things, and there are so many other people doing the same thing, there is tons of community advice and help. If a developer is not capable of doing that, what ARE they capable of doing?