New subject: [Semediawiki-user] Update reliability

2 Nov 2016

As some of you might know, we are running a quite complex project with
http://www.housetrails.org that makes use of Semantic Mediawiki and map integration.

Unforunately, updating the Mediawiki, Semantic Mediawiki and its plugins has
become very frustrating recently, since every update brought some new problems
and feature loss. For me as maintainer of the project and also the people who
help me with maintaining the system, it is often difficult to figure out where
the problems exactly are coming from, and where to address these issues.

Just a short overview:

- Edit button for Semantic Forms was missing.
The reason seems to be that Mediawiki does not update categories immediately
anymore, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ta3n8f4l49wuqe9s
Since we are using different forms for different categories the result is that
we are having problems here, and needed to install a suboptimal workaround.
I don't know where this change took place and where to open this issue, but it
worked fine before updating to MW 1.27.

- Wrong page in print version:
When clicking on "print page", the link shows a different page than the one
that
currently is displayed. No idea where that comes from, maybe a problem with the
template?

- Coordinate input via Google Map is broken in Semantic Forms/Page Forms:
This usecase always had different issues and flaws in the recent versions of
Maps and Semantic Forms. With Page Forms it doesn't work at all.

- No KML support:
KML support (e.g. display of trails) suddenly was lost when updating maps.

- Confirm Account plugin failed to work with MW 1.27. Here we found some
replacement that is not as good, but will do the job.

However, I'm clueless how to get out of this update chaos. Maybe giving access
to our test system might help developers to test some use cases that obviously
haven't been tested recently. Or any other ideas how i could help there?

-- 
Martin