Put the system requirements for each Mahara release into README

Bug #1234487 reported by Aaron Wells
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Mahara
Fix Released
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Aaron Wells
1.6
Fix Released
Medium
Aaron Wells
1.7
Fix Released
Medium
Aaron Wells

Bug Description

People sometimes ask on the forums what the system requirements are for past versions of Mahara. And currently, there's no easy way to answer that question, because we keep them on this page ( https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Requirements ) and we just update that page periodically.

It would make more sense to also put the system requirements into the README file, and update that at each major release. The system requirements shouldn't change in a minor release.

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Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote :
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2646
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/239f222c99b17ba2590163d310e5c898a852170c
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 239f222c99b17ba2590163d310e5c898a852170c
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 23 18:39:46 2013 +1300

Putting the 1.8 system requirements into the README file

Bug1234487

Change-Id: I56f1504bdc7d3f38abe254362d59998a84b62531

Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)
Changed in mahara:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
no longer affects: mahara/1.8
Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote :

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2660
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/ef57a7014b8aaafee08b9178af84136d9fd590da
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.6_STABLE

commit ef57a7014b8aaafee08b9178af84136d9fd590da
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 23 18:39:46 2013 +1300

Putting the 1.8 system requirements into the README file

Bug1234487

Change-Id: I56f1504bdc7d3f38abe254362d59998a84b62531

Revision history for this message
Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote :

Patches 2659 and 2660 were cherry-picking the Mahara 1.8 system requirements into the README for Mahara 1.6 and 1.7, which is inappropriate, so I've reverted them.

I assume that the system requirements for a Mahara major version will not change with each minor version, which means that if we were to provide system requirements for 1.6 & 1.7, we'd need to look through the history of the system requirements wiki page to find out what the stated reqs were at the time we released 1.6.0 and 1.7.0.

On the other hand, we're not actually keeping around machines with older versions of MySQL, Postgres, and all the web browsers, to test new minor releases in. So, de facto, those new minor versions are in fact being tested against a constantly updating set of software.

We should probably discuss it at the next dev meeting.

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote :

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2661
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/b52a2b0d2adf950e8f83f7ddc9cd1375d10cbdac
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.6_STABLE

commit b52a2b0d2adf950e8f83f7ddc9cd1375d10cbdac
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 25 16:13:14 2013 +1300

Revert "Putting the 1.8 system requirements into the README file"

Bug1234487

This reverts commit ef57a7014b8aaafee08b9178af84136d9fd590da.

Change-Id: I214f827101b6ebea2826f5ef38d0f93392ebf77d

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote :

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2662
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/214e357b653d8c9248a38264bcb3f06fd241e3ea
Submitter: Son Nguyen (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.7_STABLE

commit 214e357b653d8c9248a38264bcb3f06fd241e3ea
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 25 16:14:12 2013 +1300

Bug1234487 Revert "Putting the 1.8 system requirements into the README file"

This reverts commit 9f6a9448a5031735901357cb82c0337af7e22955.

Change-Id: Ic5fdbe2f3ffd5cc0819cc15042dd81766df1475b

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Robert Lyon (robertl-9) wrote :

Added patches that better reflect what was required when the release branches came out
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/2797/
https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/2798/

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote :

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/2808
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/b0a5c052f9d51a870e22e06b2ce0ada190002777
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.8_STABLE

commit b0a5c052f9d51a870e22e06b2ce0ada190002777
Author: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 17 07:11:14 2013 +1300

Adding in new mahoodle pdf link (bug 1234487)

Signed-off-by: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>

Change-Id: Icff572b50321a883230f24fa8657d734a984b01e

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A patch has been submitted for review

Patch for "1.6_STABLE" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/3167

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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/3167
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/4770d203d2ba59b93e22bdbd8d868c3d138cc142
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.6_STABLE

commit 4770d203d2ba59b93e22bdbd8d868c3d138cc142
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 2 15:09:05 2014 +1300

Adding system requirements to README

Bug 1234487

Mahara 1.6 was released on Oct 18, 2012, so I used the contents of the
system requirements page from the wiki on that date, to get this info.
https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Requirements&oldid=3657

Change-Id: Ic4bd52057a6df9c4216b46061efd9f41752e7e9c

Revision history for this message
Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A patch has been submitted for review

Patch for "1.7_STABLE" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/3168

Revision history for this message
Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/3168
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/68f049a99027c133ebd31258da4e99802bba75bf
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.7_STABLE

commit 68f049a99027c133ebd31258da4e99802bba75bf
Author: Aaron Wells <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 2 15:25:23 2014 +1300

Adding Mahara 1.7 README file.

Bug 1234487

1.7 was released on April 19, 2013. So the system requirements are taken
from the snapshot of the system requirements wiki page on that date:
https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php?title=System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Requirements&oldid=4245

Change-Id: I03f69abe4a4b0c7fb25a321f178c860f713e5047

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Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote :

At the time of the 1.6 release we hadn't specified any supported web browsers, and at the time of the 1.7 release we simply said "latest version" for all the non-IE ones. So, since it would be too much of a hassle to look up what was the latest version of FF, Chrome, and Opera on Apr 19, 2012, I've just omitted the "web browser" part when adding the system requirements to the 1.6 and 1.7 README files.

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