[HCoop-Discuss] Upgrade policy for MoinMoin

Adam Chlipala adamc at hcoop.net
Tue Apr 8 12:20:14 EDT 2008


Michael Olson wrote:
>> Second, as long as we have regular back-ups, then I'm fine with having
>> someone upgrade my wikis for me, if that person doesn't mind doing it.
>> Should we add a wiki page for registering wikis for this upgrading
>> service?
>>     
>
> If it's the case that not everyone might want automatic migration, then
> the people who don't register on the wiki page would have trouble
> whenever a new release was installed, because their wiki pages might not
> work any longer.  Basically we would have to keep two different versions
> of MoinMoin around on mire, which would mean there would have to be some
> way for domtool to distinguish between the two, perhaps by means of a
> MoinVersion domtool variable (whose values could be "moin_stable" or
> "moin_latest").
>   

My intention was not that unregistered MoinMoins should keep working.  
People would be responsible for registering each new wiki that they create.



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