Hi Christian,
I know you have suggested this before. In all honesty, it doesn't really matter whether I use subversion or not, especially with the way that we have to upgrade these wikis. Getting the MW core code is the easy part. I just download, extract, and move a couple of files over. The vast majority of the time is spent in downloading and installing the extensions. I use subversion for as many of them as I can, but that is suitable for maybe half of the extensions that we use.
What would be most helpful is to re-evaluate the extensions that we are running and see if we can get rid of a couple. That would go a long way for making the upgrades easier.
Thank you,
Matt
>>> Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> 11/6/2011 2:02 PM >>>
Hello
Am Freitag, 4. November 2011 schrieb Matthew Ehle:
> As a precaution, I am working on an immediate upgrade path to the
> latest version of Mediawiki and its plugins. I will also be working
> on upgrading Apache to 2.2.21 on the www and wiki servers.
Now that the wiki code is hosted in git:
You probably remember my recommendation to use a SVN checkout of the
mediawiki stable branch [1] (which can be updated with a simple "svn up"
or "svn switch" later, even without breaking local modifications).
The upgrade would be a good opportunity to do that _now_, to make future
upgrades easier.
I have another request: Can you please install the ReplaceText
extension? It would make several tasks much easier, for example the
replacement of style= with class= in pages that are based on a page
template. (The extension is by default only available to admins, and
that's a good default IMHO.)
See http://en.opensuse.org/Help:CSS_cleanup and
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GCI_tasks#Replace_CSS_style_with_CSS_classes_in_the_wiki
for details about the cleanup plans. We hope a Google Code In
participiant will do the cleanup in the templates.
The CSS cleanup in the content pages based on a page template page will
be done by a wiki admin (using the ReplaceText extension) - we don't
want to give a newbie admin rights ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz
[1] if you don't remember all details:
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2010-09/msg00053.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2010-09/msg00058.html
- or just ask me ;-)
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