dan_the_man at telus
Oct 12, 2008, 5:34 PM
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Re: announcing umw: bash script to backup/update mediawiki from svn
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AGPL and a big page on a simple bash script that any decent bash coder
could write in their sleep?
There isn't even anything special about it... It doesn't even use any
sane defaults when things aren't specified in the config, so the config
file itself is far more verbose than it needs to be. Something fancier
could go as far as to use AdminSettings.php (perhaps written in php like
the rest of mw?), but this makes you write mysql login data in a third spot.
The script doesn't even handle release versions of MediaWiki. So you're
stuck with cryptic svn revisions which likely are for trunk. The script
itself is almost 90 lines, but only runs 5 simple already existing
commands that anyone could run by hand without being AGPL restricted.
And while the script does do backups, it doesn't give the user a single
clue on how to fix something if something is broken.
So rather, this script hinders users rather than helps. True, it's
simple... But if someone doesn't know enough about handling MediaWiki
from the cli that they need this script to help them, then they are
going to have issues restoring the wiki if something breaks. And because
they've been using the script rather than learning how to handle mw on
the cli, they are going to have even more issues than if they did
everything by hand.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
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nsk wrote:
> Le dimanche 12 octobre 2008 à 23:12 +0000,
> mediawiki-l-request [at] lists a écrit :
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>> From: Brion Vibber <brion [at] wikimedia>
>> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] announcing umw: bash script to
>> backup/update mediawiki from svn
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>>> You can find it at http://karastathis.org/index.php/Umw
>>>
>> Nothing there.
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> Sorry I changed something, it's http://nsk.karastathis.org/index.php/Umw
> now
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