There are a lot of users who are still using Joomla 2.5 and we will see what Joomla is doing with their PHP 7 support. We will see how this goes

I see PHP 7 support on joomla's roadmap for this quarter in 3.5 I believe. Doesn't that mean you guys should be kicked into gear and be ready to handle PHP 7?

Everyone on the Joomla 3.x stream will likely flow into 3.5, 3.6, and etc. and if PHP 7 is stable, Joomla is stable supporting PHP 7, I'd hope the core extensions we'd use support php 7 also

I guess PHP 7 should have backwards compatibility but we'll see how this goes. We can't leave users using 2.5 in the dark.

When's 2.5 done support life cycle? Many people have 2.5 version of component and 3.x version because of many issues like this.

From what I see,

Joomla! 2.5

Current Release
2.5.28
Upcoming Release
None
Release Date of Series
January 20, 2011
End of Support for 2.5
December 31, 2014

So I don't think it's fair to hold 3.x users back when 2.5 isn't even being supported anymore. That's usually why developers break up components for 2.5 and 3.x, so 3.x can continue on and you can do security patches for 2.5 or if you want new features too....

Please start thinking about this, joomla team has, php 7 gives major performance benefits out of the box without any effort and has major advantages and if Joomla supports it I think your team should too.

This was the same issue we had when transitioning from 1.5 to 2.5. If we drop support for 2.x soon, we'll have a bunch of very angry customers

There are still many sites that are on 2.x and I think we'll most likely end up having to have an additional layer for backwards compatibility. We'll see how this goes

Okay, excited for PHP 7. Sad if we have to wait a long time before taking advantage

There are some gotchas Joomla referenced for backwards compatibility issues and PHP 7 though, which will probably be an issue for your team because of some major change(s) (singular or plural not sure).

Don't mind me if I make another thread and try to get a bunch of people to +1 it...

No problem We'll see how this goes.

By the way, we recently just set php requirement to 5.3 for EasyBlog and we had almost 100 over tickets for compatibility issue