Hi, On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Harald Ommang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > In one way, I very much appreciate the relatively high frequency of > updates done by the XWIKI crew. You are doing a great job, making sure that > XWIKI is alive and kicking and always improving. > > > > The downside to this, is all the work needed to be done when upgrading. > So, I don't do that very often. The basic part of installation/migration > works very well, but when it comes to content, the upgrade procedure is > messy, as I see it. It is a hassle to have to pick and choose between > various parts when importing and exported XAR. > > > > I would very much suggest planning for a future where the parts that are > XWIKI software are clearly separated from the parts where customers > typically do modifications. Especially items like users and groups. It > should be possible to have a more separated export/import so that you GET > new versions of e.g. the admin pages, while still KEEPING your setup of > users, groups, etc., without having to click on a million of checkboxes in > the import. > > I don't really understand this comment, doing export/import is really > not the standard way of doing an upgrade. In typical upgrade you > backup everything if you want to be safe (or better you have automated > backups and you don't really need to do it when you upgrade), upgrade > the WAR part (if you use the Debian package then it's just about doing > apt-get upgrade or install with a specific version), restart, XWiki > upgrade the database shema automatically if needed and then you get > the Distribution Wizard which download and upgrade the wiki pages with > 3 ways merge. Most of the time you don't have anything to do. > Sure, but to benefit from all those nice Distribution Wizard features, Harald would first need to... upgrade to the latest version ;-) Guillaume _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
