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. 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"? 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. Thanks, Sergio Ciccolella On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> 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#HUpgradingwikido...

To be notified of the myxwiki.org server upgrade you can follow myxwiki on twitter: http://twitter.com/myxwiki

Thanks, -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

On May 12, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Sergio Ciccolella wrote:

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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 -> applications like "blog". Since our site is new, we don't have any applications and there are no upgrade implications.

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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.

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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

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Thanks,

Sergio Ciccolella

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

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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#HUpgradingwikido...

...

To be notified of the myxwiki.org server upgrade you can follow myxwiki on twitter: http://twitter.com/myxwiki

Thanks,

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On May 12, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

On May 12, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Sergio Ciccolella wrote:

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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On May 12, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Sergio Ciccolella wrote:

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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.

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-> 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.

Said differently we handle the runtime upgrades but we let you handle the content upgrades (since it's impossible for us to do with confidence and since we want to share the admin burden - remember that admin for this farm is done by the community). Thanks -Vincent

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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 <[email protected]> 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#HUpgradingwikido...

...

To be notified of the myxwiki.org server upgrade you can follow myxwiki on twitter: http://twitter.com/myxwiki

Thanks,