Mantis is a php bug tracker application. Lately, I have been doing a worse work in maintaining it in Fedora, with several missing updates with security bugs. Now, I'm trying to get it back into shape and noticed we have 1.1.8 in EPEL 5 (and no EPEL 6) build.
I think it is time to decide whether we retire the package from EPEL (the EPEL5 branch is orphaned) or bring it on. In this latter case, I think it would be best to upgrade to the 1.2 series which is the one still supported upstream and I have no spare cycles to try fixing 1.1.8 it in EPEL.
opinions?
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:32:19 +0100 Gianluca Sforna giallu@gmail.com wrote:
Mantis is a php bug tracker application. Lately, I have been doing a worse work in maintaining it in Fedora, with several missing updates with security bugs. Now, I'm trying to get it back into shape and noticed we have 1.1.8 in EPEL 5 (and no EPEL 6) build.
I think it is time to decide whether we retire the package from EPEL (the EPEL5 branch is orphaned) or bring it on. In this latter case, I think it would be best to upgrade to the 1.2 series which is the one still supported upstream and I have no spare cycles to try fixing 1.1.8 it in EPEL.
opinions?
Well, whats the end user impact of an upgrade from 1.1.8 to 1.2? Does it require intervention to get it working after upgrade? Does it have a very different user interface?
For 6, I would definitely say support the newest stable one you can, as it will be there for a long while. ;)
kevin
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
Well, whats the end user impact of an upgrade from 1.1.8 to 1.2? Does it require intervention to get it working after upgrade?
After installation, an admin is prompted to perform a DB schema migration by following a specific link.
Does it have a very different user interface?
No, the web interface is pretty similar. There are many new features but the default installation feels pretty much the same to the user.
For 6, I would definitely say support the newest stable one you can, as it will be there for a long while. ;)
yeah, I am just trying to understand if the next major version will be released anytime soon, so I could avoid doing another upgrade in a short time
-- Gianluca Sforna
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:10 +0100 Gianluca Sforna giallu@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
Well, whats the end user impact of an upgrade from 1.1.8 to 1.2? Does it require intervention to get it working after upgrade?
After installation, an admin is prompted to perform a DB schema migration by following a specific link.
ok, and the existing site doesn't work until they do?
is this the case on all mantis updates? Or only major versions?
Does it have a very different user interface?
No, the web interface is pretty similar. There are many new features but the default installation feels pretty much the same to the user.
ok
For 6, I would definitely say support the newest stable one you can, as it will be there for a long while. ;)
yeah, I am just trying to understand if the next major version will be released anytime soon, so I could avoid doing another upgrade in a short time
Sure, makes sense.
kevin
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
ok, and the existing site doesn't work until they do?
No. you need to do it before logging in again.
is this the case on all mantis updates? Or only major versions?
Upstream usually do this only for major updates (1.1 -> 1.2 -> 1.3)
-- Gianluca Sforna
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