Re: Rolling over to new MediaWiki

Garrett's new MediaWiki skin is getting close to completion, and it happens to run on MediaWiki 1.19, which we need to upgrade to. We have a few approaches: 1. Staggered upgrade - update MediaWiki 1.19 (either with an RPM or ZIP), test, then update the theme. Do move to OpenShift as another process. 2. One rollover - create the new site with the new version and the new theme on OpenShift, import the data (pages and users), test; then freeze the old wiki, do a final import of pages and users, and roll over DNS to the OpenShift instance.

Advantages? Disadvantages? Different approaches? Garrett - we have our install at /wiki, which is a bit standard, and there are reasons AIUI: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory Note the admonition that doing the wiki at root-level means no support from Wikimedia developers. The idea to make the MediaWiki instance the entire site means we need to decide how we want www.ovirt.org to resolve, same with wiki.ovirt.org, and do we hack MediaWiki to make it work with / instead of /wiki. - Karsten, who wrote all this when about to check on the situation with MediaWiki 1.19 in Fedora/EPEL, and realized we could skip the problem by using OpenShift directly and immediately. _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra