From: Daniel Friesen dan_the_man@telus.net
People complain about issues cause they don't follow instructions...
(Much good advice about how to do incremental upgrades clipped...)
Remember Wikipedia? Wikimedia runs off MediaWiki and is being constantly upgraded. If the upgrade process wasn't handled right then you'd see Wikipedia broken all the time.
I believe the OP suggested export/import because they had fallen way behind, and lacked confidence in an upgrade process that is generally designed for Wikipedia's needs of strictly sequential incremental upgrades.
I am in the same situation, running 1.3. Short of upgrading to 1.4, then 1.5, then 1.6... I don't believe this posting really addresses strategies for someone who is way behind to "catch up." The further you are behind, the more likely something will break, no matter how carefully one follows the instructions for upgrading from 1.13.1 to 1.13.2.
Anyone have any good strategies going from 1.3 to current? I'm planning on making a complete copy, accessed from a new URL, and trying the upgrade on that. But I'm doubtful that such an upgrade will be fruitful.
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