On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:50:49 +0200, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
And I assume whatever MediaWiki version this will be packaged into should will include an upgrade script for people who just bump one version?
There is no need for an upgrade script. If you're upgrading using the tarball, then all you need to do is copy a few lines of code from the warning message and paste them into LocalSettings.php.
It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/A6rOOFZ.png (I have a few custom skins installed in this example).
(The code for this is not merged yet, comments welcome at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/148508.)