> From: Tim Starling <[email protected]>
All good points, and yet:
> Your case is not normal. That
> is the price you pay for upgrading MediaWiki as often as other people
> paint their houses.
That's a useful analogy. One doesn't hire a staff painter to be on-hand,
touching up little nicks here and there as they develop over time unless
painting is but a small part of the operation. For most people, one waits until
it actually needs painting.
I have farm plants and animals to take care of, and a not-for-profit
organization to run, and I volunteer for numerous other organizations. I don't
have time to baby-sit a computer.
This is not an easy thing to hear nor understand for those who spend all their
time baby-sitting computers for a living. I know -- that was me in another life!
So, one *could* say, "Hey, if we made upgrading as easy as paint drying, more
people would keep up!"
Or one can self-righteously blame the victim for having a life beyond keeping
up with every little upgrade.
(Postscript: I composed that message a week and a day ago. Then I felt guilty,
and proceeded to go on an "upgrade binge," bringing my OS up from 10.6.8 to
10.10.5, which would have given me -- among other things -- PHP 5.6. End
result: my email and website were down for a week as I struggled to get my
server's environment back, and I never did get a working upgrade installed.
This is coming to you from a restored backup. I feel vindicated.)
Jan Steinman
EcoReality Co-op, http://www.EcoReality.org
2152 Fulford-Ganges Road
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1Z7 CANADA
+1 250.653.2024
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