- 🇳🇿New Zealand quietone
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A major problem with the policy for experimental modules is that they are allowed to be included without any consideration for people using them. The experimental module policy → states:
No upgrade path is provided from alpha versions. To resolve issues for the module, uninstall and reinstall it (backing up any data).
Note that the wording specifically says "upgrade path", it does not say "no update scripts". An "upgrade path" has traditionally meant upgrading from one core version to another, if it is being coopted to mean no support for patch release updates then I feel a disservice is being done.
While the backwards compatibility limitation can be handled with proper documentation, not having update scripts means that sites require major effort to destroy and then rebuild functionality on minor updates. IMHO this is unfair on site builders and owners, given the relative limited amount of time it would take to build such update scripts versus the effort to rebuild and restore data.
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No upgrade path is provided from alpha versions. To resolve issues for the module, uninstall and reinstall it (backing up any data).
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The Ideas project is being deprecated. This issue is moved to the Drupal project. Check that the selected component is correct. Also, add the relevant tags, especially any 'needs manager review' tags.