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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