Hello
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start to migrate to 4.1 ? May be you'll wait until 5.0 will become certified ?
Xmlizer
xmlizer wrote:
Hello
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start to migrate to 4.1 ?
Hello,
Brion looked at it but there is some authentication trouble with MediaWiki (fixed by recompiling php): http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/001928.html
May be you'll wait until 5.0 will become certified ?
What do you prefer:
1/ having wikipedia using mysql 4.1 the day it is released and eventually have the site down for several days 2/ let dev test for a month and have a smooth migration ?
cheers,
Ashar Voultoiz a écrit :
xmlizer wrote:
Hello
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start to migrate to 4.1 ?
Hello,
Brion looked at it but there is some authentication trouble with MediaWiki (fixed by recompiling php): http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/001928.html
May be you'll wait until 5.0 will become certified ?
What do you prefer:
1/ having wikipedia using mysql 4.1 the day it is released and eventually have the site down for several days 2/ let dev test for a month and have a smooth migration ?
cheers,
I prefer wikipedia working ! I was just asking if it was better to jump to big versions (because of the cost/risk of migrating) than for minor. There was no trolling at all !
Cheers²
xmlizer wrote: <snip>
I prefer wikipedia working ! I was just asking if it was better to jump to big versions (because of the cost/risk of migrating) than for minor. There was no trolling at all !
Well we already use MySQL 4.0.20, so 4.1 is not that much a big jump I believe :o)
On Nov 3, 2004, at 5:53 AM, xmlizer wrote:
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start to migrate to 4.1 ?
Currently MediaWiki doesn't take advantage of any of MySQL's new features, so there's no benefit from the risk of an upgrade.
Support for things like collations could be helpful (for sorting articles in a language-specific way), but afaik nobody's yet had the opportunity to look into it and see: a) if it will actually do what we want b) if we can enable it without a lot of changes c) if it will require significant downtime for index rebuilding
Further, it would be nice to have this ability on wikis running on older versions of MySQL, so we might do a different, compatible sorting implementation anyway.
The one thing we do know is that we've had reports of 'index too long' errors when using a utf-8 collation mode.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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