On 1 August 2010 19:14, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I'm interpreting this right, you're saying that upgrades can break > stuff, so people should stick to versions with known security flaws. > This is a defensible position in practice, but it doesn't justify > making upgrades unnecessarily hard. I assume this is based on WordPress, where this happening was a bit of a problem for a while. These days it works pretty flawlessly. (3.0.1 is just out, I should probably install it.) > It would be a good thing if > typical admins could easily upgrade, without needing FTP access and so > forth. If they choose not to, that's their choice, but if they want > to upgrade, they should be able to do so easily. WordPress asks for the account's SFTP password, which I don't find feels like an undue imposition. Basically, such a mechanism will be compared to WordPress every step of the way :-) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
