On 01/26/2012 04:45 PM, Chad wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:31 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
What's this about "taking your site down
for maintenance"? I don't think
Wikimedia wikis have needed to go into read-only mode or go offline(!) for
an upgrade since like MediaWiki 1.5 or something. I skimmed
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19> and didn't see any crazy
database schema changes or anything. Am I missing something?
Not that I can see, there's no major schema changes this go
round so I can't see any reason we'd need to go offline/readonly.
-Chad
OK. I was under the impression that we announce these windows partly
because if something goes very wrong during the upgrade, sites might go
offline or readonly. Is that wrong or inapplicable here? Perhaps
better wording would instead just talk about possible JS breakage or
some other, more likely ill effects? Let me know and I'll send a
followup mail.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation