[Owncloud] Owncloud 5 operating system problems not documented

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Wednesday 20 March 2013 20:28:00 Vince D. Kimball wrote:
> We've known for a week that Owncloud 5 has a PHP incompatibility with
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and reportedly with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as well.  This is
> not documented anywhere?

Hardly for a week, and once the issue was found an upgrade path was documented 
[1], admittently only in the manual installation docs. People have been 
working very hard to find a balance of whether it we should not allow 
installation on the (very old) 10.04 or if a secure solution could be found 
[2]. A solution was found to allow using PHP 5.3.2 (5.3.3?) [3] and when it 
has been tested thorougly it will be merged into master and stable5 and be in 
the next maintenance release.
 
> I'm at a loss as to how I can recommend Owncloud to clients.  Every
> upgrade seems to require at least a day's worth of work to make usable.

Only a day to adjust a key component is proof that the community does a good 
job :)

[1] 
http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/admin_manual/installation/installation_source.html
[2] https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2310
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2006
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2309
[3] https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/2447
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Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Tanghus