In reply to Jeffr0.

Sorry Jeff, but how exactly will that help? Yoast asked for information **all** plugin and theme authors want to know, and ask for it, but only he got it.

The method which I assume was by email is obviously not scalable and if every author in the repositories asked for such an info just once a year, there will have to be a dedicated person just to answer them.

So this whole issue is not about yoast having fun with annoying his users. They are grown man and can switch to other plugins, The only issue is about transparency from the wordpress.org team. If they feel like bending the rules to promote PHP upgrades, that is cool, just let everybody that wish know they can participate. If they want to release the PHP version usage for plugin authors, let all the other plugin authors know they can apply to get it.