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web-based upgrade needs some sort of progress indicator
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Right now I'm trying to upgrade a sizable MW 1.16.5 installation using the web ui and there is no indicator of how much time this will take or even that stuff is being done.

Some sort of progress indicator is necessary or, at the very least, a warning that large installations will take a very long time and it is better to use update.php.


Version: 1.17.x
Severity: normal

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:51 PM
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Hmm... it _should_ push out more data from the update progress as it comes along. Is it bunching up until the end?

Or are some of the steps just not producing output while they run?

(A spinner at least sounds wise, I forget if there's one in there already.)

(In reply to comment #1)

Hmm... it _should_ push out more data from the update progress as it comes
along. Is it bunching up until the end?

Bunching up or coming only in really big chunks. I just remember it sitting forever.

(A spinner at least sounds wise, I forget if there's one in there already.)

*At least* a spinner. But I hope we can do more than that.

(In reply to comment #2)

(In reply to comment #1)

Hmm... it _should_ push out more data from the update progress as it comes
along. Is it bunching up until the end?

Bunching up or coming only in really big chunks. I just remember it sitting
forever.

I remember the results depended on your output buffering settings.

(In reply to comment #3)

I remember the results depended on your output buffering settings.

I thought it might... that can be controlled by the install script, though, I think.