On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Harald Ommang <[email protected]> wrote:
Good, I was hoping I was wrong. If I am not completely wrong, my comment used to be valid...?
What do you mean with "3 ways merge"? It is now clear to me that there is more to the Distribution Wizard than has (yet) met my eye :-)
When you install a XAR extension (and the standard UI is a tree of XAR extension) each page get a 3 ways merge meaning that you get a merge between 3 versions: the previous standard version, what is currently in the database (i.e. you modifications) and the new standard version. That means that your changes are kept when you upgrade unless your changed conflict with a change between standard previous and new version in which case you can a detailed conflict UI where you can choose which version you want (and a proposed merge).
Harald
-----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Mortagne Sent: 9. desember 2014 22:24 To: XWiki Users Subject: 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 <[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.
Best regards Harald Ommang Norway _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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