I have an old database, not sure of the version number (1.0 "alpha" maybe, or 0.9.9). I haven't upgraded in eons (at least a year). All my stuff is currently offline however I'll try and get my database available soon (I'll want to scrub a couple personal/draft items).
Lance On 9/13/05, Anil Gangolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This topic was discussed a while ago by Allen in the context of removing > support for upgrading from pre 1.0 Roller dbs. > > I thought I should mention that I just helped a user from the mailing list > upgrade from 0.98 to 1.2. > > Two notes: (1) apparently there are still people upgrading. (2) Somewhere > along the sequence of upgrade scripts the upgrades of the categories/category > relationships and folders/folder relationships went quite bad. > > Luckily, he was farily sophisticated and was able to get out of the mess with > light guidance. > > I suspect bugs in the early db upgrade scripts. Generating old DBs to test > upgrades would test my pain tolerance, but we may want to survey for old > users still out there and issue a kind of "last call". > > If there are enough, it is probably worth getting an old db (perhaps from a > volunteer, or perhaps from an old backup of Dave's), and trying to fix > upgrade script bugs. > > --a. >
