Hi all,
I'd like to remind everyone involved in development that requires db schema
migrations - please keep in mind the three related guidelines in our
official deployment policies -
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches -
especially the third, which is to make schema
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Assuming this seems sensible to everyone, I can update this page with this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy
And this is done now.
In case you aren't using a threaded mail client, here's the original
Here's the migrations library I wrote. :)
https://github.com/ottomata/cs_migrations
-Andrew Otto
On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Andrew Otto wrote:
I once wrote a pretty decent schema migration tool that fits most if not all
of these requirements. It was built for the Kohana PHP framework,
I once wrote a pretty decent schema migration tool that fits most if not all of
these requirements. It was built for the Kohana PHP framework, but a lot of it
is pretty independent of that. If someone ends up working on this I'd love to
help and maybe share some code and ideas.
-Andrew
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote:
As we do more frequent deploys, it's going to become critical that we
get database schema changes correct, and that we do so in a way that
gives us time to prepare for said changes and roll back to old
versions of the software
Le 25/04/12 02:52, Rob Lanphier a écrit :
3. For anything that involves a schema change to the production dbs,
make sure Asher Feldman (afeld...@wikimedia.org) is on the reviewer
list. He's already keeping an eye on this stuff the best he can, but
it's going to be easy for him to miss
I am generally in favor of all of this and in the meeting that proceeded
Rob's email, proposed that we develop a new schema migration tool for
mediawiki along similar lines. Such a beast would have to work in all
deployment cases without modifications (stock single wiki installs and at
wmf with
Thanks, hashar!
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Le 25/04/12 02:52, Rob Lanphier a écrit :
3. For anything that involves a schema change to the production dbs,
make sure Asher Feldman (afeld...@wikimedia.org) is on the reviewer
list. He's already
Hi everyone,
As we do more frequent deploys, it's going to become critical that we
get database schema changes correct, and that we do so in a way that
gives us time to prepare for said changes and roll back to old
versions of the software should a deploy go poorly. This applies both
to
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't have a strong opinion about whether we need to follow rule #1
above through an iteration of our six month tarball release cycle, but
we at least need to follow it through the two week deployment cycle.
I think
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