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How do we upgrade a site to a newer Pinax release? #4

Closed nealmcb closed 8 years ago

nealmcb commented 8 years ago

Does Pinax have an easy way to upgrade a site which was based on a previous version? Or are there plans to support something like that?

I.e. is Pinax careful to maintain backwards-compatibility, or document an upgrade path when compatibility breaks, so it can be versioned and managed like a code library?

Or is it just intended to be a template that we fork from, in which we forever own maintenance, fixing security issues, etc?

I don't see responses to the questions about this on the mailing list. E.g.:

I guess this is related to https://github.com/pinax/pinax/issues/84 but it's hard to even find the right issues thread to ask this question on.

jtauber commented 8 years ago

Individual apps generally follow semantic versioning and often have an upgrade path.

But combinations of apps, and starter projects are a little harder to version and upgrade which is why we proposed and are aiming towards something like https://github.com/pinax/pinax/issues/84.

An upgrade path from 3+ year old code is probably not realistic given how much Pinax has changed although some individual apps might be upgradable.

But, in short: apps should be upgradable but something like https://github.com/pinax/pinax/issues/84 is needed for coordinated releases of dependent apps.

ossanna16 commented 8 years ago

@nealmcb Does the answer above answer your question, meaning can I close this issue? 😊

nealmcb commented 8 years ago

That is a very helpful response - thanks! I'd suggest that it be incorporated into the documentation.

ossanna16 commented 8 years ago

@nealmcb Great suggestion! Would you mind sending a PR for this? It would be awesome and much appreciated :)

nealmcb commented 8 years ago

I'd be happy to. But I'm having trouble finding which repo has the source of the documentation for http://pinaxproject.com/pinax/faq/ So many repos!

jtauber commented 8 years ago

@nealmcb http://pinaxproject.com/pinax/#colophon

nealmcb commented 8 years ago

Thanks. See https://github.com/pinax/pinax/pull/104 Since that is in a different repo, I'm guessing that the issue here won't be linked, or at least I don't know how to cleanly link them.

[Well, I stand corrected - thanks github!]

jtauber commented 8 years ago

@nealmcb yeah, github does a good job with that

ossanna16 commented 8 years ago

Thank you @nealmcb and @jtauber!