Exactly.
That's why it would be useful:
- to get some insights on the duration of the process (or at least the steps 
being done and left to be done)
- to get an email that it is ready and one can start things
- to start some maintenance operations as soon as it is migrated (e.g. a 
restart, e.g. launch a phase 2 deployment)

Paul


Le 19 juin 2012 à 17:48, Vincent Massol a écrit :

> 
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> 
>> Being stuck in the middle of such a process I understand the rationale: go 
>> down, let the backup happen or something such, then only open the doors from 
>> outside and start serving.
> 
> Well you don't have to open the front end… This is just the servlet 
> container. Usually you have an apache in front (or nginx, or…).
> 
> When you perform upgrade you always need to block the front end because as an 
> admin you need to verify the site works fine before you open it up for 
> "public" consumption. This is no different.
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
>> Maybe the right thing to offer is to run a script instead of going down?
>> I would add to it to send a mail just before... since doing this might be 
>> configured in xwiki and it is harder in scripts?
>> 
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 19 juin 2012 à 13:05, Vincent Massol a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hi devs,
>>> 
>>> I see that Denis has added the following:
>>> 
>>> if ("1".equals(config.getProperty("xwiki.store.migration.exitAfterEnd", 
>>> "0"))) {
>>>       logger.error("Exiting because xwiki.store.migration.exitAfterEnd is 
>>> set");
>>>       System.exit(0);
>>> 
>>> This is really bad IMO since System.exit should never be used in 
>>> JavaEE/Servlet apps.
>>> 
>>> See also
>>> http://nemo.sonarsource.org/drilldown/violations/XWIKI?rids%5B%5D=367322&rule=pmd%3ADoNotCallSystemExit&rule_sev=INFO#L425
>>> 
>>> One problem for example is that this will stop the full Servlet JVM so if 
>>> XWiki runs in a Servlet container running several other webapps suddenly 
>>> the whole Servlet container will go down!
>>> 
>>> What should be done instead is to remove this "feature" which has no real 
>>> meaning in a Servlet environment. 
>>> 
>>> I'm thus proposing to deprecate this feature. I don't even understand what 
>>> use cases it brings.
>>> 
>>> WDYT?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>> 
>>> 
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