Re: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review test instance now.
Presumably it means that the web site as we see it now would remain up but we would loose the ability to make any changes to by changing the wiki. Sound right? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.comwrote: Please see below, this is going to cause a BIG impact for Tuscany, as our website is still based on autoexport plugin. -- Forwarded message -- From: *gmcdonald* Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Subject: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review test instance now. To: p...@apache.org, gene...@incubator.apache.org [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) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: private-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: private-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/ -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
Re: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review test instance now.
Yes. We should really think about moving to use CMS as our website source Which would also help us review the website contents. On Wednesday, June 19, 2013, Simon Laws wrote: Presumably it means that the web site as we see it now would remain up but we would loose the ability to make any changes to by changing the wiki. Sound right? On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Luciano Resende luckbr1...@gmail.comwrote: Please see below, this is going to cause a BIG impact for Tuscany, as our website is still based on autoexport plugin. -- Forwarded message -- From: *gmcdonald* Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Subject: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review test instance now. To: p...@apache.org, gene...@incubator.apache.org [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) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: private-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: private-help@incuba -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
