When should I upgrade?
For me, the decision is usually made by answering a simple question: What benefit do I get if I upgrade?
I am not actually that good at answering what harm may the upgrade do. The only time I have been badly caught out by this is with my own personal wiki.
I used mediaWiki as my primary wiki tool. This is for a great many reasons but the thing I really love about it is the ease of producing beautifully rendered mathematical formulae.
I have happily been upgrading from version 11.1 to 13.2 – 13.3 brought a very nasty surprise – SimpleSecurity stopped working! 🙁
SimpleSecurity is a lovely way of handling permissions on singular pages – which is perfect for a document producing tool or a collaborative tool where, perhaps, you’d like the opportunity to get something to a certain stage before presenting to the world. I always feel that SimpleSecurity gave something the blog world has had for a long time – a scratch area which may be shared before going public with a more polished version.
This has all gone. So watch out before making that upgrade – check the pluggins you love can make the grade in the new environment.
Posted: March 15th, 2009 under 42.