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Erich

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CiviCRM Upgrade Manager
January 05, 2011, 07:53:45 pm
I searched for [upgrade manager] in these fora but didn't find anything, so I thought I'd suggest it here.

A CiviCRM Upgrade Manager, much like the Joomla Upgrade Manager, would be a definite usability improvement. 

I envision something like the following:
1) invoking the CiviCRM Update Manager takes me to a screen that says something like "You are currently running CiviCRM 3.x.y.  The latest release is currently CiviCRM 3.3.2.  Please select a download" and gives me the choice of downloading the full 3.3.2 package or a 3.x.y-to-3.3.2 patch package.
2) the selected package is downloaded directly to the site's administrator/components/com_installer/component directory and I am given the opportunity to proceed with the install.
3) the update is applied.

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Re: CiviCRM Upgrade Manager
January 06, 2011, 10:26:31 am

Any chance you can help out on this and contribute code to do the needful?

Seems like we've got quite a few "examples" (drupal/joomla/wordpress) whose code we can use

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Re: CiviCRM Upgrade Manager
January 07, 2011, 09:01:31 pm
Sorry, no... I'm not a PHP or MySQL programmer... just a CiviCRM user (who happens to be responsible for administering several dozen similarly-configured sites which all use CiviCRM, so it would be really convenient if any upgrade process were to remember such settings as enabled components, mapping/geocoding settings, etc.)

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Re: CiviCRM Upgrade Manager
January 08, 2011, 12:58:43 am
Hi,

Good idea, would you have a budget to make it happen?

On drupal, there is a drush module that does something quite close that you mention. FYI, what we do is using a drupal multi site install (one install of drupal by version of civi), and for each new version of civi, we create a new drupal, copy the site config, change the webserver config so the domain names point to the new version root and run the upgrade script.

Works ok (actually, we tend to run the upgrate scripts on the dev server, and only dump/restore the upgraded db on the production site).

Need to upgrade the cron, sometimes adapt the config files to enable no features, but mostly simple.

I know that some in the community are working on aegir and co, seems to automate all that.

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