As a follow-up to the release meeting May 2nd I went through the list of typically tailored files from the upgrade topic I wrote http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/UpgradingTWiki04x00PatchReleases I ran the commands below. And the results other then "--------" (no changes) are pasted below. svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/TWikiPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/_default/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Sandbox/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Trash/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/_empty/WebPreferences.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/TWiki/WebTopBar.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/_default/WebLeftBar.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/Main/WebLeftBar.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/Sandbox/WebLeftBar.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/TWiki/WebLeftBar.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/TWiki/WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/TWikiUsers.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/.htpasswd svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/TWikiAdminGroup.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/TWikiRegistration.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/ChangePassword.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/ResetPassword.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/ChangeEmailAddress.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/WebNotify.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/WebNotify.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Sandbox/WebNotify.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Main/WebHome.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/WebHome.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Sandbox/WebHome.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/NewUserTemplate.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/WikiSyntaxSummary.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD index.html svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/CommentPlugin/data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/EditTablePlugin/data/TWiki/EditTablePlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/InterwikiPlugin/data/TWiki/InterwikiPlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/InterwikiPlugin/data/TWiki/InterWikis.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/SlideShowPlugin/data/TWiki/SlideShowPlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/SmiliesPlugin/data/TWiki/SmiliesPlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/TablePlugin/data/TWiki/TablePlugin.txt svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Sandbox/WebPreferences.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9985 | CrawfordCurrie | 2006-04-30 10:27:37 +0200 (Sun, 30 Apr 2006) | 1 line Item2142: support for writing email to user topic; support for config items in IF statements; added HideUserDetails option to replace EmailPadding, to avoid increasing the number of options. Unit tests for some of the above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn log -r 9627:HEAD twikiplugins/PatternSkin/data/Main/WebLeftBar.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r10018 | MeredithLesly | 2006-05-02 19:22:35 +0200 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line Item2207: Fix to faulty include/if statement ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r10051 | KennethLavrsen | 2006-05-03 07:31:28 +0200 (Wed, 03 May 2006) | 2 lines Item2207: Reverted 10018 which breaks the WebLeftBar in TWiki4 instead of fixing it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/Sandbox/WebHome.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9848 | ArthurClemens | 2006-04-17 01:21:33 +0200 (Mon, 17 Apr 2006) | 1 line Item2116: translation correction and adding of css class to form fields ------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn log -r 9627:HEAD data/TWiki/NewUserTemplate.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9985 | CrawfordCurrie | 2006-04-30 10:27:37 +0200 (Sun, 30 Apr 2006) | 1 line Item2142: support for writing email to user topic; support for config items in IF statements; added HideUserDetails option to replace EmailPadding, to avoid increasing the number of options. Unit tests for some of the above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusions. Developers have not changed many typically taylored failes this time. Main/WebLeftBar.txt was reverted back and is in practical not changed. The two sandbox updates hopefully annoys very few since it is the sandbox web. But if people have added a lot of links to the Sandbox WebHome then it is an annoyance and I wonder if the small cosmetic change done in r9848 is worth having. Alternatively we can remove this one file from the _changed zip. People that install from scratch or use a patch will get the cosmetic update and people that upgrade will not. A third alternative is to put files that can be annoying in a seperate directory in the _changed zip so you can make a manual decision if you want to overwrite the file. I do not understand the change to data/Sandbox/WebPreferences.txt If this is essential why has it only been changed in Sandbox? What people typically tailor in this topic is the access rights to the web. The data/TWiki/NewUserTemplate.txt is a functional change which is essential and has a good very reason for being implemented. It is worth the annoyance because it adds value for admin and users. The tailoring the admin needs to redo is removing the note to the administrator. If the admin forgets to do this it is not essential and should not break anything. Users will just see the note to the admin in yellow. So unless developers start altering a lot of the listed topics above we seem to be in a pretty good shape and 4.0.3 upgrade should be an easy one for the administrators. Kenneth