[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8524: Hooks Need for WP 2.7 Upgrade Features To Avoid Disaster!

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#8524: Hooks Need for WP 2.7 Upgrade Features To Avoid Disaster!
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 Reporter:  markedwards  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.7      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 Seems as though there are no action hooks in place that get called before
 Wordpress tries to upgrade plugins, themes, and the core itself. In my
 perspective this is a big oversight that will cause problems down the road
 and wind up breaking a lot of sites. Some plugins will need to know in
 advance that an upgrade is about to take place for the plugin itself or
 the core in order to take appropriate actions that maintain site
 stability. I can image that the same holds true for many complicated
 themes. This lack also presents a problem on multi-admin sites - what if
 one admin inadvertently begins an upgrade without realizing that another
 admin isn't ready for that to happen? The results could potentially be
 catastrophic and lead to extended downtime, loss of work, loss of data,
 etc.

 PLEASE include action hooks in all the core upgrade functions BEFORE any
 file copying/deleting takes place. This will allow a diverse set of safety
 checks to be put in place by whoever needs them, which will prevent
 disasters.

 I marked this high priority - based on my experiences managing and
 developing high traffic multi-editor and multi-admin sites I truly think
 it's warranted and should be handled before 2.7 officially launches. After
 all, it's just a series of do_action calls - nothing major to get this
 straightened out.

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