On 26 June 2013 16:13, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keith spotted earlier that any links to the wiki export no longer seem to > work, with links 404'ing other than the index page itself at > https://cwiki.apache.org/qpid/ > > The original email below would seem related, as the autoexport plugin used > to do the export is no longer going to be supported following a Confluence > upgrade and will not be coming back. Following some of the links in the > mail (e.g on the JIRA) suggest there are some manual alternatives such as a > maven based build project to do the equivalent of the export plugin. > > All that said, going to our actual Confluence instance just now says that > the major upgrade has actually *not* occurred yet as indicated in the mail, > with a banner instead saying "Upgraded to 3.5.17. Upgrade to 5.1 delayed." > Either way, our html export seems to be screwed currently. > > What would we like to do about this? > Anyone else (thanks Steve!) care to chime in on this? It would be good to get something agreed that we can then start working towards to help clear up the current mess. > > I have said previously in the website threads that I would actually quite > like to get rid of the HTML export and move any remaining user > documentation of real use to the main documentation/website, deleting most > of what is on the wiki, and subsequently using the actual wiki (rather than > an export) for only the things that it is best suited to going forward. > > As such, I think my choice would just be to get > https://cwiki.apache.org/qpid/ redirected to the actual Confluence wiki > at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/qpid just now and then > start down the path of clearing most of the existing rubbish out. > > Robbie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: gmcdonald <[email protected]> > Date: 18 June 2013 12:56 > Subject: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review > test instance now. > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > > [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) > > > >
