-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2011 5:08 PM, Olivier Beaton wrote: > It should be noted that the MediaWiki docs recommend doing the following > for an upgrade (after your backups): > > tar xvzf mediawiki-1.18.0.tar.gz -C /path/to/your/wiki/ --strip-components=1 > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Unpack_the_new_files > > If this is out of date or will cause problems for 1.18, it should > definitely be changed to reflect that. The users posting about profiler > errors followed our instructions.
In defense of the existing instructions, there's this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Can_my_wiki_stay_online_while_it_is_upgrading.3F "If you are upgrading between major releases of MediaWiki, the preferred procedure is... Unpack the new version of MediaWiki into a new directory. Prepare that new directory: copy your current LocalSettings.php from the old directory, copy any installed extensions and custom skins (if any)." This, however, is buried way down at the bottom and easy to miss. It also didn't help things in my case, but that's beside the point. Perhaps there should be a separate list of instructions for upgrading between "major" versions and "minor" versions. It might also be helpful to define "major" and "minor". When I read about a "major" release, I think of moving from, say, version 1.x to 2.x; this seems to be the conventional wisdom when it comes to software versioning. Moving from 1.17.x to 1.18.x implies a minor release in many cases. That varies from project to project, of course, and could be a source of much political debate, but when you define these terms differently than common conventions it helps to share that definition with your users. - -- Jeff Darlington General Protection Fault http://www.gpf-comics.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7WZT8ACgkQVNMIBILmfwGu7ACgxo+4tN/8OOtJ4GqMYmPUYp2w YBwAn04HzReCDdrYb/RP6/qjoBSJunc5 =ob2y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l