On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBTECH/Revisions+Requiring+Data+Migration
Hans originally wrote that page, and I have updated it to recommend
following the established deprecation pattern, as I've described
above (those who have followed the mailing list know that a few
committers have rebelled against this pattern claiming it is too
much work... so I also added a request to end-users to complain so
that we all understand better why it is important).
Are you sure? I have followed that type of discussion pretty
closely, and I recall some committers being confused about the
pattern and needing additional guidance, but I don't recall a
committer rebelling against it.
Just check out that page and look at the instructions there for
various revisions.
Maybe "rebelling" is too strong a word, but personally with my "End-
User Advocate" hat on I'd much rather see us writing services to move
data around when migration is needed rather than saying "do it
manually using export, a text editor, and import".
-David
