[documentation] URGENT: Please review upgrade tutorial instructions

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On 1-Dec-2005, at 12:54 AM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> Well you can approach this from two different angles.
>
> 1) Do the logical thing and the right thing.(10 steps, back up your  
> database etc.)
> 2) Do the thing that human beings will actually do. (download  
> newest code, hit update.php)

>
> I fought for 1) for many months.  In the end I interviewed enough  
> users and talked to enough site administrators to realize that  
> everyone was going to do 2).  So I gave up and just gave them what  
> they wanted.
>
> We designed the tutorial in a way that it was going to provide the  
> two basic steps for everyone, and the advanced steps for those who  
> listen to their teachers, look both ways before crossing the  
> street, and eat their broccoli.

Hmm, this tells me that database backups are too difficult for most  
people to do.

Can't we make this easier, by scripting backups into update.php?

>
> Kieran