Re: Upgrading pgFoundry

[Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>]

Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
>   
> > Re-sent -hackers message:
> >
> > On Sep 24, 2008, at 14:02, Joshua Drake wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > I think one problem we have right now, is nobody knows what it is going
> > > to take. I would expect that our current version is sufficiently old
> > > enough to cause some migration pain?
> > >
> > > I know we have two members willing to help that are not Stefan and I.
> > > Which is good, but this doesn't appear to be a small project.
> > >       
> > Does anyone know what needs to be done? If so, and you'd like to reply with
> > a list of tasks, I can put in a little time this week and maybe next
> > starting down that road. If it's a big job, I likely can't do it all myself,
> > but I'm certainly happy to help out!
> >     
>
> Unless you're an expert with GForge, there's probably not much you can
> do (and we do have one GForge developer who has kindly agreed to work
> on the upgrade. The current issue is one of hardware platform which
> I'm about to go solve myself.
>   
I'm actually an almost-expert with GForge (we offer a range of GForge 
courses, including Administration/management, and I hacked around the 
code quite a bit), but at present my time is somewhat limited.  I did 
submit a bunch of bugs/fixes for the soon-to-be-released version some 
time ago.  I'm not sure if they have been corrected, but IMHO, many of 
them are "show stoppers", there's also a bunch of data type issues with 
PG 8.3 and GForge - I'm also not sure if they've been fixed.  I'm 
assuming we'd want to move to the latest release...

I would agree that its definitely not a small project.  There have been 
lots of changes, esp to the SQL code, and several less-used facets might 
still be untested.
> Once that is sorted, and our GForge guy has assessed what needs to be
> done, there may be more tasks that you could help out with.
>   
If there's a list of tasks, I can probably pick and do some of them...

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