Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Andreas Kuhne
2016-09-06 16:07 GMT+02:00 Andromeda Yelton : > +1 to Erik's plan. > > In deciding whether to stop at 1.8 or go all the way to 1.10 I'd ask > myself the following questions: > > * Are there features from 1.10 (that aren't in 1.8) that I'd really like > to have?

Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread bobhaugen
We migrated a huge codebase from 1.4 to 1.8 like this: https://github.com/FreedomCoop/valuenetwork/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+label%3Aupgrade Might give you some clues. Short version: one release at a time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Andromeda Yelton
+1 to Erik's plan. In deciding whether to stop at 1.8 or go all the way to 1.10 I'd ask myself the following questions: * Are there features from 1.10 (that aren't in 1.8) that I'd really like to have? (channels is the big one for me) * Are there important third-party dependencies that are only

Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Michal Petrucha
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:12:14AM +0200, Andreas Kuhne wrote: > 2016-09-06 10:57 GMT+02:00 Erik Cederstrand : > > > > > > Den 6. sep. 2016 kl. 10.20 skrev Lekan Wahab : > > > > > > Good morning guys. > > > I was handed a project at work which was

Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Andreas Kuhne
2016-09-06 10:57 GMT+02:00 Erik Cederstrand : > > > Den 6. sep. 2016 kl. 10.20 skrev Lekan Wahab : > > > > Good morning guys. > > I was handed a project at work which was written as far back as 2012. > > Quiet a lot of the packages used in the

Re: Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Erik Cederstrand
> Den 6. sep. 2016 kl. 10.20 skrev Lekan Wahab : > > Good morning guys. > I was handed a project at work which was written as far back as 2012. > Quiet a lot of the packages used in the project are either no longer being > maintained. > Rebuilding the project from scratch is

Maintaining old django code

2016-09-06 Thread Lekan Wahab
Good morning guys. I was handed a project at work which was written as far back as 2012. Quiet a lot of the packages used in the project are either no longer being maintained. Rebuilding the project from scratch is not option. There are way too many moving parts and way too many apps to rebuild