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[Aaron Wells <1453632@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

One problem with the Mahara skins feature, is that it is highly
dependent on modifying the underlying theme, and templates. And these
both change, sometimes radically, from one major version of Mahara to
the next.

This means that skins will break when you do a major version upgrade
(unless the skin author edits the skin to be compatible with the new
version). And that could provide quite a disincentive for people to
upgrade their Mahara site.

I'm not sure what the best solution for this problem is, so I'm opening
this bug partly to discuss the issue.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: skins

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453632

Title:
  Skins break on major version upgrade

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  One problem with the Mahara skins feature, is that it is highly
  dependent on modifying the underlying theme, and templates. And these
  both change, sometimes radically, from one major version of Mahara to
  the next.

  This means that skins will break when you do a major version upgrade
  (unless the skin author edits the skin to be compatible with the new
  version). And that could provide quite a disincentive for people to
  upgrade their Mahara site.

  I'm not sure what the best solution for this problem is, so I'm
  opening this bug partly to discuss the issue.

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