As noted in https://www.drupal.org/psa-2019-02-25 → , Drupal 7 will reach EOL for community support in November 2021. However, Drupal 7 Vendor Extended Support will last until at least 2024.
All sounds good on paper; however, a practical problem with this arrangement is that there are new PHP versions every year, and said releases go EOL after 3 years. Drupal 7's current minimum PHP version (as defined by the software) is PHP 5.2.4(!) although policy-wise at least PHP 7.2 → is recommended, and hopefully soon PHP 7.3 → .
But I guess the bottom line is, even if we successfully make Drupal 7 (core) work with PHP 7.5 (presumably, at the end of 2021), there are still ~15,000 contributed modules → (and themes, and profiles, and etc.), at least some of which will be required to run sites that choose to stay on D7.
Bottom line: What should be the strategy for dealing with EOL PHP versions in Drupal 7 long-term?
No idea. Let's chat. :)
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