New installer/issues

This is a list of known issues in the new-installer branch. List started from Tim's list at.

Open installer bugs which can be fixed in the branch.

Branch in SVN


 * Evaluate restart possibilities for failed install step
 * Does not go well at all. Also: re-entry on a half-working install is bad. Should be more robust in its checks.


 * Test canCreateAccounts
 * Get someone to fix the error box styling
 * Fix session expiry message "$1"
 * Eh? Looks ok now. Max Semenik 19:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Object cache settings
 * Partially done. Needs some cleanup


 * proprietary DB support, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15493
 * This is not a blocker. Mysql, Postgresql, Sqlite are the only requirements. The rest are a bonus.


 * Review initial main page text
 * Make sure usernames are trim'd
 * Logo URL doesn't default to actual path
 * README/RELEASE-NOTES/COPYING all need to be properly wiki formatted, else we need to include wiki-formatted version
 * Easier to just force wiki formatting in the files, waste of time to have two
 * Or you can regex-foo it like here and here


 * RELEASE-NOTES does something funky with left sidebar font sizes :-\
 * CC license picker is buggy (doesn't load image, name of license, etc)
 * Additional e-mail settings need adding
 * Continue button on "Completed installation" leads to null page


 * Spews ugly warnings if sessions path is not writable (old installer did not)
 * Fieldset legends are very small, smaller than the labels for fields.
 * Project namespace, the first alternative, the javascript needs to add space or it looks like this Same as the wiki name:Foobar
 * Is there need to be able to hide a help once shown?
 * If some field does not validate, it should be highlighted in addition to error messages somewhere in the page.
 * Field for sqlite data dir could be longer.
 * Some help could perhaps be shown by default, like the short ones and the more unclear ones, like "User rights profile"
 * Object caching defaults to Memcached, while APC installed. Should check that APC cache is big enough.
 * SQLite installation fails with no error, only output is: "   * Setting up database..."
 * "Advanced configuration" box on options page is empty.
 * Suggestions for what to put here? Otherwise we can comment it out.


 * Don't offer "MediaWiki" as custom project namespace name by default, it's invalid (what other sane value could it be?)
 * This is because $wgMetaNamespace is false by default, meaning it will use $wgSitename, which is 'MediaWiki' by default. Might want to tweak the default sitename :)


 * Sqlite permission values are confusing at best, useless for Windows users, and don't even work as advertised (usual oct/dec conversion issues). Probably just remove?
 * Removed entirely
 * Major: Post upgrade, if you choose to regenerate LocalSettings, it runs the full install. This is bad.
 * Checkboxes are positioned insanely.
 * UPGRADING doc (others too?) will be wrong and need updating.
 * In case of DB errors, only (SQL query hidden) is displayed.
 * Because $wgShowSQLErrors is false by default. Set to true for install?
 * Did that in 64091, probably it's too much and may disclose system information.
 * Does it make sense to add version of MediaWiki that generated LocalSettings to that file to keep track of things?
 * This was committed? I know we discussed it, but I don't remember doing it :)


 * We currently have two sidebars with partially duplicated content.
 * Sniff languages from Accept-Language?
 * Command-line installer: I (Max) have started working on it.