Re: [xwiki-users] What would you like to see in the XWiki 7.x cycle?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Harald Ommang <harald.ommang(a)verico.com> wrote: updates done by the XWIKI crew. You are doing a great job, making sure that XWIKI is alive and kicking and always improving. 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. 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