I'm afraid you've got a point there, Boris. Your not alone.
Contrary to you, I 've (up to now) tried to keep everything up to date. I
must now admit that the advantages of doing so are rapidly vanishing. Too
often this ends in a time consuming trial and error, leading into fault
messages and malfunction, hence a loss of confidence. I think I will change
policies and keep things as they are until I notice a more coherent upgrade
approach.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe(a)utoronto.ca>
wrote:
Just to counter that, you are overlooking a crucial
point ...
On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:44 AM, Ray Paseur <ray.paseur(a)armedia.com> wrote:
I believe that using the latest software is
almost always a good idea.
We are going to upgrade eventually - why deny ourselves
the benefits of the
latest software by putting off the upgrades? The only argument in favor of
delay would be a breaking change, and this is something that the authors of
the software must publicize.
I hold off updates as long as at all possible, the reason being that over
the last years new versions of the software have almost never come with
tangible benefits to my core use. It is almost always just fixing
edge-cases we don't care about and better support for things we don't use.
Why? Because we have developed a workflow around the software as it existed
about three years ago and there is really no reason to change that. The
benefit of not using the latest is that we get to skip releases and frankly
every single release just takes way, way to long to install and verify and
fix across our multiple Wikis. Every release I can skip gives me half a day
of my life!
The release cycles are too short. As far as I'm concerned, MediaWiki works
oK, if it would do just what it does; that would be nice, and aspiring to
anything else is just not what I'm interested in. The only reason why I'm
constantly on the lookout for alternatives to MW are the frequent
required/recommended updates.
I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.
Now, if a new version would come out that would autoupdate and configure
itself and make sure it keeps on working with my (completely standard)
extensions, that would be nice. Too modern?
Boris
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