Le 9 déc. 2014 22:37, "Thomas Mortagne" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ;-) > > Distribution Wizard has been introduced in 4.2 so not really the > latest version. And even before that export/import everything never > really been standard upgrade process either.
Sure, but you usually did reverse way : import new xwiki ui xar (and remember to uncheck standard pages customized, or have them overwritten). And yes, it was sometimes a hassle, and compared to that distribution wizard is really really great :) > > > > > Guillaume > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
