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

[Andy Seaborne <an...@epimorphics.com>]

On 18/06/13 12:56, gmcdonald wrote:
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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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