I’m planning major software update of Overgrow for coming weekend (2020 February 22 - 23). It is expected to take 8 - 12 hours when the site will be completely off. For remainder of the weekend it should be online but some of the time in read-only mode.
I’ll try to make the outage as short as possible, but please if you have some urgent matter through PMs do them now or wait after weekend …
You can also use our Discord to meet and chat during the outage: Discord (please bookmark it now)
I have run a number of large system upgrades! Do not envy you. Hope all your specializations carry through without amendment.
Does the “new” version have a good rep? Will you run parallel for a bit? Is retreat possible if it goes sideways?
Yes, Discourse has very active and professional development team (also thanks to their business model). There are some great talents behind it. It is in the same league as vBulletin was in 00’ years…
That is not possible because of different database structures.
Sure, everything is backed up and I can rollback to point one anytime. Anything can happen during the upgrade, due to large complexity of this project. But I’m pretty confident that it will be successful. Everything was tested on development instance and worked smoothly… I’m planning the upgrade roadmap and preparing prerequisities for more than two weeks already. It is just a matter of limiting downtime because there are a lot of interconnected components that need a setup.
Well damn now what am I gonna do while I’m at work Saturday night…guess I could do my job but what’s the point in that. Joking of course but sweet cant wait to see the update