A year or so ago, I tried to upgrade my Gallery from Gallery 2.1 to Gallery 2.2. I was promised all sorts of amazing new things if I did so, including much better CAPCHAs so I could re-enable comments. But the upgrade blew up terribly and required a very time consuming restore from backup. So I got some help from the nice people on the Gallery forums, fixed some database problems, and tried again. This time I’d been smart enough to make the backup locally, so the restore wasn’t quite so painful, but suffice it to say it blew up again. The nice people on the forums gave me more things to try to fix the database, but I’d had my fill of restoring from backups and so while I did the things they suggested to fix the database, I didn’t do the upgrade.
Today I decided to be adventurous, and I tried the upgrade. And lo and behold, it actually worked! Only a few little glitches, mostly errors when trying to rebuild thumbnails, but I think that’s because Gallery currently doesn’t handle PDFs very well.
The upshot is, if you’re a user of the gallery, and see anything wrong, please let me know. I’m going to turn on comments, so let me know if you see spam as well.