I'm afraid you've got a point there, Boris. Your not alone. Contrary to you, I 've (up to now) tried to keep everything up to date. I must now admit that the advantages of doing so are rapidly vanishing. Too often this ends in a time consuming trial and error, leading into fault messages and malfunction, hence a loss of confidence. I think I will change policies and keep things as they are until I notice a more coherent upgrade approach.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Boris Steipe <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to counter that, you are overlooking a crucial point ... > On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Ray Paseur <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe that using the latest software is almost always a good idea. > We are going to upgrade eventually - why deny ourselves the benefits of the > latest software by putting off the upgrades? The only argument in favor of > delay would be a breaking change, and this is something that the authors of > the software must publicize. > > I hold off updates as long as at all possible, the reason being that over > the last years new versions of the software have almost never come with > tangible benefits to my core use. It is almost always just fixing > edge-cases we don't care about and better support for things we don't use. > Why? Because we have developed a workflow around the software as it existed > about three years ago and there is really no reason to change that. The > benefit of not using the latest is that we get to skip releases and frankly > every single release just takes way, way to long to install and verify and > fix across our multiple Wikis. Every release I can skip gives me half a day > of my life! > > The release cycles are too short. As far as I'm concerned, MediaWiki works > oK, if it would do just what it does; that would be nice, and aspiring to > anything else is just not what I'm interested in. The only reason why I'm > constantly on the lookout for alternatives to MW are the frequent > required/recommended updates. > > I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. > > Now, if a new version would come out that would autoupdate and configure > itself and make sure it keeps on working with my (completely standard) > extensions, that would be nice. Too modern? > > > Boris > _______________________________________________ > 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
