[support] drupal upgrades? automated?

[Ms. Nancy Wichmann]

This is why I don't use the Update module on most of my live sites. I have back ups of all my sites set up locally in a multi-site per core version. I update my core and contribs there first and make sure that things are working. Then I move the code to the live sites.

Yes, this can mean that there are temporary security vulnerabilities. I'll take that risk over the likelihood that something will break if I just upgrade willy-nilly. Plus, having already tested, I know whether or not to follow those instructions.

Oh, and I have also had problems come up by allowing Windoze to update itself.

 
Nancy 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.



>________________________________
> From: Dave Stevens
>Recently I got an email from my drupal 7.10 site informing me that  
>there was an update available to version 7.12. The link took me to a  
>pink hued page where I was told that it was advisable to correct a  
>security problem by upgrading to 7.12. I am then informed that there  
>is no automated upgrade, but that instructions are available to  
>manually back up files and databases then carry on with a manual  
>upgrade.
>
>I see this as a real issue with the design of Drupal. It is all very  
>well to find vulnerabilities and announce them, with fixes, but if  
>there is no simple, automated way to apply the fixes there will  
>inevitably be a lot of unpatched cms's out there running outdated and  
>known-vulnerable versions of Drupal.
>
>The developers may, for all I know, be working hard on an automated  
>update and patch mechanism. Can anyone tell me if this is the case? Am  
>I doomed to continue manually applying security fixes as long as I  
>persist with Drupal? I dumped Win95 a long time ago and have really no  
>wish to regress this way.
>
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