Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:56:50 UTC
This is more a discussion bug whether this should be done or not. This script is old, broken (wfImageDir and wfImageArchiveDir were removed in r22580 but are still called by this script) and confuses people (see r58941). In my opinion it could be simply deleted.
I'm all for it. CCing Brion, I believe he's the one who brought this into existence :p
Probably killable, especially if we've got good alternate directions for upgrading from a pre-1.5 install using 8-bit charset. Its original purpose was to do two things: * perform an "online" upgrade while the 1.4 setup continued to run in read-only mode, needed since updating the large Wikipedia sites took a long time * provide an upgrade path for 1.4 installs using 8-bit charsets (does reencoding of titles, comments, filenames etc, leaving the flags compatibility markers so text entries get recoded on the fly when loaded) -- needed since en.wikipedia and some of the other European languages were still on Latin-1 at that point. It's unlikely that Wikipedia-size 1.4 installs still remain in large quantity, and if there are that's their problem. ;)
I am removing upgrade1_5.php with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/33980
Been merged. Will be removed with MediaWiki 1.21
