On May 12, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Sergio Ciccolella wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On May 12, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Sergio Ciccolella wrote:
I'm a newbie working with a non-profit to use
a new site that has
been
created on myxwiki for our collaboration. The statement in the note
below
is that anyone with space on this hosted farm should upgrade.
The
myxwiki.org farm is tracking the latest versions and we update it
as soon as a release is out. However we can't upgrade the
applications
in it on behalf of its users because it would mean overwriting any
change you'd have made to existing pages that are in the default XAR.
Thus we let you do some part of admin work and it's your charge to
upgrade your wiki.
-> Vincent, many thanks for your response! I assume you mean user
created
applications but not including built in
I mean *including* built in since you can modify them.
-> applications like "blog". Since our
site is new, we don't have any
applications and there are no upgrade implications.
ok then the upgrade should be easy for you.
Thanks
-Vincent
>>
>> This is
>> certainly counter intuitive as I would expect to be tracking the
>> latest
>> software automatically as we are part of the hosted farm. In fact,
>> there is
>> a warning to this effect that myxwiki is not for enterprise
>> applications for
>> the reason that it is used for development. So, please advise what
>> the
>> definitive answer is here as the upgrade instructions address a
>> variety of
>> environments that do not appear to apply to the hosted farm.
>>
>> Also, as a new site on the hosted farm it seems as though I must
>> tell users
>> to register and then I would need to enter the same userId, first
>> and last
>> name to give them change rights under "Administration"?
>
> That only depends on your strategy and there are lots of valid
> strategies.
>
>> Otherwise, I would
>> need to create accounts for them assigning userIds and passwords and
>> this
>> would be a lot of work. Seems like there should be a "Getting
>> Started
>> Guide" under
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/
>> that
>> provides pointers on the next steps after the site is created by
>> myxwiki
>> administrators.
>
> See
http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GettingStarted/
>
> To guillaume: why is this guide not linked yet?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sergio Ciccolella
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
myxwiki.org has been upgraded to XE 1.8.3. If you own a wiki hosted
>>> there, you should have a look at:
>>>
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise183
>>>
>>> We also strongly recommend an upgrade to the latest wiki version.
>>> To
>>> upgrade you must download XE 1.8.3 XWiki XAR from:
>>>
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Main/Download
>>> And follow the upgrade guide available at:
>>>
>>>
>
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/AdminGuide/Installation#HUpgradingwikid…
>>>
>>> To be notified of the
myxwiki.org server upgrade you can follow
>>> myxwiki
>>> on twitter:
>>>
http://twitter.com/myxwiki
>>>
>>> Thanks,