FYI On 6/18/13 4:56 AM, "gmcdonald" <gmcdon...@apache.org> wrote:
>[PMCs please forward to your dev list ; Incubator Mentors please forward >to >your Podling dev list. > Note that this message may be received twice as it will also go to >committers@ list.] > > >Hi All, > >If your project has a Confluence Wiki then this is an IMPORTANT >announcement >for you and your project. Please read this email carefully. > >NOTICE: The ASF Confluence instance is planned to be upgraded this >Saturday >22nd June 2013. Judging by the time taken to upgrade the test instance, >please expect the service to be in a down or read only state for the >entire >day. > >This email is to let you know that a test upgrade has already occurred and >is live for you to play with now. This gives us all an opportunity to test >for stability as well as any upgrade/plugin issues that might have >happened >along the way. > >Our current confluence wiki is at version 3.4.9 from way back in February >2011 and Atlassian have released a further 45 updates along the way, >including another 2 major versions. >The test instance has been upgraded several times along the way, with >database surgery, operating system and server changes along the way. > >There have been casualties. Most notably is the Autoexport Plugin has had >to >be disabled permanently as during extensive testing, this plugin stopped >working on version 4.3. Templates and Macros are also affected with major >changes from wiki markup to xhtml amongst other things. Some plugins >survived with upgrades all the way whilst some have been >decommissioned/replaced or have changed to 'paid for' versions that we >need >to sort out licensing for. Nothing major that I can tell, but that's where >you lot come in with your testing of your own spaces. > >Please familiarise yourself with what's new in Confluence 5.1 at >https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.1+Release+Notes >and also take a good look around our upgraded test instance. Do not worry >about mucking anything up on the test instance as that is what it is there >for. Any changes/additions made will be lost on Saturday when a new >migration will take place. The current confluence version will remain >online >in a read only state until the new version is completed. > >A jira ticket has been raised at >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6406 where projects can add >comments on any issues they are having with the test instance as compared >to >their old site. Just problems only please, do not turn it into a how to >use >confluence 5 thread. In addition, if there are any features that you >currently use that do not work in the test instance, please replicate the >feature in the current production TEST space so that I can test them all >in >the one place along the way. (Ask if you need create page permissions to >cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TEST ) > >It may be possible in the future to replace Autoexport by playing around >with the API to export the pages but this is not a priority, nor is it >supported. We warned projects long ago that the Autoexport Tool would be >incompatible with future Confluence versions and that time has now come. > >Ok so, please test and report to the Jira Issue mentioned anything amiss >with your space. Go to https://cwiki2.apache.org/confluence and have a >play >around. You have 3 DAYS to report anything you find. > >Thanks > >Gavin (ASF Infra) > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
