Re: [Debian-sf-users] Upgrade / Downgrade sf and other recomendations for ourproject

[Christian Bayle]

Vicente Ruiz wrote:

> Hello to everybody:
>
> Congratulations for your software, good job. I installed yesterday the
> 2.5-31+ version and I only had the SSL problem described by Kees Louwen
> and I fixed it with his recomendation (adding "SSLEnable" in the Virtual
> Hosts), and I am just a newbie.
>  
Thanks

> We are planning to use a version of debian-sf to manage any kind of
> projects (not only software projects).
>
> For more information you can look at "our project" provisional web site
> and our manifesto:
> http://ourproject.org
>
> In the link "How will be the project management tool" (this page is not
> traslated to English already) we explain to not technical people that we
> are planning to install a tool like sourceforge. 
>
> We think that we can use this kind of tool to manage other kind of free
> projects and collaborative work, not necessarily free software projects.
> In the future we'll try to modificate debian-sf to our necessities.
>
> Well, after the presentation, the questions:
> - Is it difficult to migrate sourceforge from a working 2.5-x version
> (with projects) to the 2.6-x version? 
>  
We will provide smooth upgrade as all debian package should do.
This is already working, but 2.6 is experimental.

> - And downgrade from 2.6-x to 2.5-x?
Should be possible, but is too complex because of big differences in 
database.

> - What versión do you recommend to a project similar to "ourproject"?
2.5 as a first step because it's stable, but 2.6 is more customizable, 
and almost functionnal.

> - What are the main bugs of 2.6 version? Because, I don't known how to
> differenciate one 2.5 bug from one 2.6 bug.
The problem is that we don't know 2.6 bugs, because we just didn't test 
all features, but most things seems to work.
2.5 should be bug free.

> - For these migrations, do you have a test site and a real site? Is it
> easy to conmutate between these sites (maybe restoring data from one
> database to the other database) in a manner transparently for the users?
>  
I added a dump/restore command in 2.6 at least for database and had 
successfull dump/restore
but this works only for full database, and there are some data in the 
database like project url, that can be linked to the server.
Project migration is not implemented, but is a often-asked feature :)

> Thanks in advance. Any comments and constructive critics will be highly
> apreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vicente Ruiz
> PS: Sorry for my English...
>  
Sorry for mine

Cheers

Christian

PS: we are often on #debian-sf of irc.openprojects.net IRC server

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