[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #56199: Make the warnings about critical Site Health issues more prominent

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#56199: Make the warnings about critical Site Health issues more prominent
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 Reporter:  azaozz                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  6.1
Component:  Site Health              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  servehappy needs-design  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by SergeyBiryukov):

 Replying to [comment:11 azaozz]:
 > > If this is the primary focus, we may want to start with updating the
 ServeHappy versions within Meta. They've intentionally not been bumped up
 to 8.x yet, to avoid causing unnecessary fear within users for such a
 large jump, but with 7.x becoming EOL at the end of the year, it may be
 time to make the bump.
 >
 > Yep, the main focus here is to move the needle low enough so the minimum
 PHP version can be bumped to (at least) 7.2, ideally to 7.4 soon.

 Last time a minimum supported PHP version bump was discussed in #51043, I
 believe the requirement stated in comment:16:ticket:51043 was to get the
 usage of the older versions we no longer want to support (PHP 5.6, 7.0,
 and 7.1 at this time) below 5% across all sites.

 Looking at the [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ current stats], this is
 already the case for PHP 7.0 and 7.1:
 ||8.1||1.27%||
 ||8.0||6.33%||
 ||7.4||55.33%||
 ||7.3||14.09%||
 ||7.2||9.25%||
 ||7.1||2.23%||
 ||7.0||3.16%||
 ||5.6||5.90%||

 PHP 5.6 is pretty close too at 5.9% (down from 8.53% a year ago and 15.40%
 two years ago), so hopefully this ticket helps us get it across the line.
 That said, I wonder if PHP 5.6 is mostly used with older WordPress
 versions, so the usage gradually drops due to new sites being created and
 not necessarily due to older sites being upgraded.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56199#comment:12>
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