2011/1/21 Platonides <[email protected]>:
> Do we agree in the target db schema?
> That's the important point.
>
We haven't thought about it in detail. But it would be a fairly large
change and require changes throughout the software, as well as
possibly elsewhere in the schema.

> Migrating a large site like commons is 'just' an operations issue.
> Making it readonly a bit wouldn't be a big issue, but could also for
> instance move to an intermediate point, where uploads are stored in both
> formats, while read only in the old one, while a script is moving
> records. Finally, flip the switch and drop the old tables.
>
Sure, it can be dealt with. It's just that it'd be an epic upgrade :)

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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