Upgrade the Mediawiki version run at cgal.geometryfactory.com

[maxGimeno]

Issue Details

The support for the current version of our wiki will soon be dropped and we should upgrade.

[lrineau]

• The version 1.23 TLS will be discontinued at the end of the month (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle).
• Maxime has already started to work on a 1.27 Docker image, at https://github.com/maxGimeno/wikimedia-docker

[sgiraudot]

I see https://github.com/maxGimeno/wikimedia-docker does not exist anymore. What it the state of this issue?

[maxGimeno]

The branch has been absorbed by https://github.com/CGAL/cgal-mediawiki-docker, but I don't know if the wiki is up or not. @lrineau ?

[lrineau]

The new wiki is still not in production. The new one will be at wiki.cgal.org, but for the moment, even if the site is up, it runs an old snapshot.

[lrineau]

I have updated the branch, to Mediawiki 1.31.

Issues:

• The Math extension needs to be configured and tested: https://wiki.cgal.org/wiki/Sandbox
• Issue with images: https://wiki.cgal.org/wiki/Main_Page
• count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in SemantincWatchList
• Test the upload
• Deploy.

[lrineau]

I think that is now ready for the deployment. I am not sure how to proceed.

Maybe:

• warn the CGAL developers,
• lock the database of the old wiki,
• do an SQL dump of the old wiki, and reload it in the new one,
• restart the new wiki,
• install a redirection from the old URLs to the new ones,
• inform the CGAL developers.

[lrineau]

Well, before that, I should:

• prepare an automatic backup script, for the new wiki.

[lrineau]

And also:

• setup the automatic start of the containers when the machine reboots.

[MaelRL]

What is the status of the wiki upgrade? There was a round of tests, but as far as I can see, deployment never happened.

(I guess 1.31 isn't that great anymore since supports ends in June 2021.)

[lrineau]

Our tests failed (after a time, the web site turned offline), and I had not the time to find a way to debug that.

[lrineau]

Relates to #7085.