[Moin-user] Why oh why!

[R.Bauer]

Pierre Coupard schrieb:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> So, I've used MoinMoin for years. I've advocated it at all my
> workplaces, and each time, my boss and other employees ended up finding
> it great and very useful.
> 
> So that's what I did at my new work last year. I installed MoinMoin
> 1.5.something from Debian-stable. I whipped up a couple of pages and
> showed it to everybody.
> 
> People slowly adopted the wiki. I managed to get them to stop sharing
> information files through Sharepoint, and to take some time to learn the
> MoinMoin syntax and make their own pages.
> 
> Eventually they all did. They all invested a lot of effort into making
> their pages, especially considering they aren't computer folks at all.
> 
> We collectively made hundreds of pages, choke full of attachments, links
> to websites, internal files, other wiki pages and whatnot. We all took
> care of making our pages properly formatted and legible.
> 
> Today, I upgraded the MoinMoin installation to version 1.7.1 because I
> wanted to try TaskPlanner, and all hell broke loose. All our pages are
> messed up.


Hi

recent version is 1.8

Please follow the guidance in your docs dir e.g.
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.0/docs/UPDATE.html
http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.0/docs/README.migration

Since 1.5.3 we provide one single migration command.

If your moin instance is older and you never had called any migration
script please read carefully README.migration and call the older
migration methods.


http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.0/docs/CHANGES
please completely read it until you reach the version
you were using until now - otherwise you might miss
some important upgrading and configuration hints.
Starting with 1.5.3, update installation hints are
marked with HINT. They assume you are upgrading from
the last release version before (e.g. from 1.5.2 to
1.5.3).


> 
> A bit of Googling revealed that the syntax has changed quite
> extensively. No matter I thought, MoinMoin is a mature, quality piece of
> code, surely there's a "legacy syntax" setting somewhere so our pages
> made with the old syntax work again. Well, none that I can find it turns
> out. And here I am, looking at 2 or 3 days of reformatting of our pages,
> my colleagues asking why the heck their hard work is all ruined, and my
> boss breathing down my neck, asking me why he's paying me to fix
> something that worked great before instead of doing my work, and why
> everybody else's workflow is stalled.

don't do it by hand work, just call the migration data command.

> 
> Please tell me there's a setting to reuse all our work, or some script
> to convert it to the new format quickly, otherwise I'm about to look
> like a right knucklehead with my technical recommendations. I can't
> believe the people who made the MoinMoin I know and like didn't care
> about backward compatibility at least a little bit.

I don't know currently which modifications at all were done by your
distribution, why they don't tell you that you have to invoke moin ...
migration data for your existing instance or why they didn't.

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cheers
Reimar