Yes. We should really think about moving to use CMS as our website source.... Which would also help us review the website contents.
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013, Simon Laws wrote: > Presumably it means that the web site as we see it now would remain up but > we would loose the ability to make any changes to by changing the wiki. > Sound right? > > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Please see below, this is going to cause a BIG impact for Tuscany, as our > website is still based on autoexport plugin. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *gmcdonald* > Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 > Subject: IMPORTANT: Major Confluence Upgrade Coming Soon. Please review > test instance now. > To: p...@apache.org, gene...@incubator.apache.org > > > [PMCs please forward to your dev list ; Incubator Mentors please forward to > your Podling dev list. > Note that this message may be received twice as it will also go to > committers@ list.] > > > 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) > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: private-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: private-help@incuba > > -- > Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org > Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com > -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
