-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge
Sent: 9. desember 2014 22:29
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] What would you like to see in the XWiki 7.x cycle?

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

I might just do that, Guillaume :-)
Harald
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