Re: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review test instance now.

[Jarek Gawor <jg...@gmail.com>]

I just re-enabled our website publication and forced all confluence
pages to be regenerated. You might see a lot of commits from the
website buildbot soon.

Thanks to Dan Kulp's work the update wasn't too bad for us. Of course,
if you see something wrong on the website let us know.

We are now also pulling the Confluence exporter code directly from CXF
(instead of maintaining our own version). That should make things
easier to deal with in the future.

Thanks,
Jarek



On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Jarek Gawor <jg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I disabled our cwiki site publication because of the pending cwiki
> upgrade. I think we will have some work to do again to make sure the
> Geronimo web pages are exported correctly. Dan Kulp already dealt with
> some of this and hopefully things will be easier for us
> (http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Web-site-more-or-less-ready-for-new-confluence-td5734450.html).
> I won't be able to work on this anytime soon (out on vacation next
> week) but maybe somebody else can pick this up soon.
>
> Jarek
>
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> Subject: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please
> review test instance now.
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> 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)
>
>
>
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