On 18/06/13 12:56, gmcdonald wrote:
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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)
