It would be nice to share these implementation issues on the implementers
list.  We've asked the AMPATH team to do so.

-Burke

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Ben Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was only around as a backup, and didn't get any calls until testing
> things the next day.  They started it Friday at 7pm and it was done by
> Sunday at 2pm.
>
> Nothing failed in the changesets during the upgrade that I know of.
> There were some bugs found after starting around formentry that will
> require some programming fixes.  Temporary hacks are in place for now.
>
> I'll have one of the AMPATH devs reply in case I'm misrepresenting the
process.
>
> Ben
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Dave Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hey ben.  i'd be curious to hear how it went.  were the difficulties
mostly
>> around having each changset take 9 hrs to run?  did you discover anything
>> that required manual cleanup to complete the process?
>> d
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Ben Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> In light of the AMPATH project updating from 1.6.2 to 1.8.2 this past
>>> weekend, I want to propose a module to ease their and other large
>>> database owners' updates in the future.  It would be a module that
>>> allows an admin to execute arbitrary changesets from a given file
>>> (like the war file they will be upgrading to).
>>>
>>> The idea is to allow the long-running and backwards compatible
>>> changesets like index additions, column additions, etc, to be run
>>> while the old application version is still in use.  This way they can
>>> run some changesets the few weekends before the big update to make
>>> sure that the big update is actually done during the scheduled
>>> downtime.
>>>
>>> See the project page:
>>>
>>>
>>>
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Execute+Database+Updates+Module+%28Design+Page%29
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
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