Following up to myself:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> In preparing for the 1.5 release, I'm going over a few things that need to
> be absolutely fine when we release 1.5. Today I was checking:
>
> - Installation docs (to be done)
>
This is now nearly done; see
http://ledgersmb.org/topic/installing-ledgersmb-15 (done yesterday) and
http://ledgersmb.org/topic/preparing/preparing-ledgersmb-15-first-use (done
just now).
> - Correct operation of setup.pl (was worked on last week, doing fine on
> my system now)
> - Correct operation of login.pl (we're running tests on this one all the
> time; doing fine on my system)
>
Verified these while working on the installation instructions over the past
week and corrected a number of issues I've encountered in course of it.
> One topic that drew my attention today -- largely due to Arne Hanssen's
> issues with 1.4 -- is *data migration*. We have a largish number of
> scripts in sql/upgrade/. Some seem to be for upgrades to 1.3, some to 1.4,
> some to be used manually, others to be used by automated migration for
> setup.pl.
>
>
> *However, none of them seem to target 1.5; neither does Upgrade_Tests.pm
> include 1.5.*
>
This is next on my list. I'm not considering it blocking, but I do think
it's pretty important to have the basics working correctly.
> Now, I know that we have very few schema changes between 1.4 and 1.5 and
> we have the sql/changes/ directory, but I'm not clear on how to tie this
> all together at this point.
>
> Should we simply remove the 1.2->1.3, 1.2->1.4 scripts? What about the
> 1.3->1.4 scripts? From my understanding, the sql/changes/ directory picks
> up from 1.4.0; do we require all 1.2 and 1.3 users upgrade by going through
> 1.4 first? I mean, I understand we don't provide community support for 1.2
> and 1.3 anymore; does that mean no migrations either?
>
>
> These questions are for my own understanding as well as for documentation
> to go with the 1.5 release.
>
@Chris, what should be documented on the point of database migrations and
schema upgrades?
Regards,
--
Bye,
Erik.
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