Hi BJ, Are you proposing a function to do automatic version upgrade? If so, how will it affects those OFBiz instances that are customized?
Regards, James BJ Freeman wrote: > > ofbiz at this point offers a rudimentary migration doc, thanks to the > mostly Jacques effort. > > But let me give you an idea of what I experience with my BBS free > software. > 1)the upgrade you download puts the software in a non access mode from > the web. > 2)it evaluate what version you are running > 3)it then goes to the software site and generate a download of files and > database changes, as a script. > 4)after you install the files it rechecks that everything in there and > does a database migration. > 5) it runs tests to validate crucial operations. > 6) it then tells you to remove the folder with the upgrade which > unblocks the web access. > > now for ofbiz I see those steps as > 1) add a service that stops web access while upgrade > 2) notes and stores the current svn version > 3) upgrades from the latest branch that is a release(by version number) > 4) checks database against upgrades and reports what has to be done > manually if any. then is the hardest part. > 5) keeps rechecking till the database passes configure test. > 6) gives a message to restart ofbiz or issues a restart command. > > any thoughts > > > -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Migration-component-Ideas-tp2335970p2336093.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
