I fully agree with David Shaw. I just posted the following: Why, oh why is this environment getting so complex for users who have no > terminal access to their server? Or am I the only one? > > Many extensions can only be installed via Composer. VisualEditor requires > Parsoid. And so on. It's made impossible for us to stay up to date. Maybe > users like myself are just a minority, but it is still a pity. Especially > so because up to a year ago it all seemed so promising. > Kind regards,
Francis On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:14 PM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur with those who mention the difficulty of upgrading. I'm running > MW 1.26.0 in a single-click installation on AWS. > > Other products I use -- including open source -- have a graceful and > online update process. > > MW is built by developers for developers. I'm not a developer and every > time I upgrade I'm scared. It's a fraught exercise. > > I have a few things that don't work, and I have no idea why. For > example, file uploads stopped working somewhere along the way but I > don't know when exactly. I didn't change file permissions; although I've > fiddled with them endlessly since. I suspect it's something in the base > AWS stack, but what? [Permissions seem to be an area of discussion with > different falvours of Linux.] > > I would like to install Parsoid (why isn't it in the base install?) but > nobody can offer insight into how to install it at docroot when you only > have docroot access. I hired a Linux pro to help with that one and he > threw his hands up. [Installation is easy, but how do you start it up > automatically?] > > Why is the mobile frontend an add-on and not the default? It's 2015... > > Quite a few extensions have gone to a DevOps approach of continuous > development and release, but how do I know when to update them? There is > no online notifiction. > > All of these and more point to the legacy and Dev nature of MW. > > David > > On 05/12/2015 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Re: What PHP version do you use? (Chris Koerner) > > -- > *David Shaw pmp, pcip* > Senior Management Consultant | Information Architect > 1.613.809.4793 > Public key: 0xACB98DF4 > > Connect on my YouTube tutorials: > Information management Tutorials > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCppqnKc2XzjRIcUltgo1GRw> > > Connect on LinkedIn & my IM/KM Blog: > Information management > <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6097601&trk=tab_pro> > www.kontentsu.blogspot.com/ > > Connect on Facebook & my Trawler Blog: > Trawlers > <https://www.facebook.com/david.shaw.3994885?ref=ts> > www.bluewater-trawlers.blogspot.ca/ > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
