[rt-devel] RT 2.1.63 and rt2-to-rt3 1.0

[Jesse Vincent]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:59:21PM +0100, THAUVIN Blaise (Dir. Informatique FRP) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick report on my first try with the new modules :
> 
> dump : Did not create the files in the directory provided, but sent on
> stdout a large file very similar to the one created by the previous version
> of the dumper code. No errors encountered. Command was :
> ./rt-2.0-to-dumpfile /tmp/rt2-to-rt3/dumpfiles >log 2>log2& . The directory
> exists and is world writable.

Sorry. there's a new verstion at rt2-to-rt3-v1.1.tar.gz that has the
right exporter in it. Give that one a shot.

> 
> import : could not run it. It complains it is missing a "Encode.pm" file. I
> tried to install the perl module, but couldn't as it said it needed perl
> 5.7.3 and I run 5.6.1. I did not try to search for and install an older
> version of the package. It seems more and more obvious that users who want
> to use the new localized features should upgrade to the lastest perl....
> this is now one more line on my the todo list :-)

Ah. I think I see what is going on and it should be fixed in the new
version.



> Jesse, which version of perl is running on your developpement and/or test
> machine? 5.6.1 or newer?

My dev box runs 5.8.0, my test box runs 5.6.1.



> As soon as the upgrade's done, I'll try again and post a report
> 
> Blaise
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse at bestpractical.com]
> Envoyé : samedi 25 janvier 2003 10:08
> À : rt-devel at lists.fsck.com
> Objet : [rt-devel] RT 2.1.63 and rt2-to-rt3 1.0
> 
> 
> 
> In the two weeks since alpha 2, a fair amount of work has gone into
> getting the codebase ready for beta. It's very, very close. I'm headed
> out of town for a couple days. If I was in fact stuck here in New
> England over the weekend, I'd be busy converting fsck.com's RT instance
> to the latest 2.1 release, 2.1.63, though I wouldn't recommend that you
> run this one in production unless you're very comfortable babysitting
> perl code and like to live on the edge. 
> 
> The past couple days have seen some important bug fixes to ticket
> searching and a redone search results page. RT's menuing has been redone
> again, but it's not likely that you'll notice in a modern browser. A
> nested table structure has been replaced with simple html markup and
> CSS, which should render more cleanly, be easier to change and send
> fewer bytes over the wire. (And that will be further reduced as we
> continue to clean up some of the CSS)  
> 
> We've done some profiling and performance tweaking. After importing a
> 15,600 ticket database (perl.org bug database), most page displays
> rendered in < 2 seconds, with a significant fraction of them rendering
> in under a second. (The host in question is a p3/800 with fairly fast
> but not top of the line IDE disks and a gig of ram. It's also serving a
> couple dozen websites and about 8  RT2 instances. It's runny Mysql
> 3.23.54 with InnoDB tables)
> 
> Right. Importing. Blaise Thauvin has been very patient as we've worked
> out the RT2->RT3 migration tool, which is currently available at:
> 
> 	http://www.fsck.com/pub/rt/devel/rt2-to-rt3.tgz
> 
> I know it spews a bunch of "redefined" warnings on import. Don't worry
> about it.
> 
> 
> RT 2.1.x's internationalization is known to still be somewhat broken on
> perl 5.6.1. At this point, if you need RT 2.1 in some language other
> than English, we strongly recommend that you consider upgrading to perl
> 5.8, which has much better support for Unicode and non-US-ASCII
> characters.  
> 
> When I get back to a normal work schedule on Wednesday or Thursday, I'll
> be collecting the issues that folks have found in the 2.1.63, bundling
> up 2.1.6x and inviting the world to beat on it before I call it RT 3.0
> Beta 1. 
> 
> Please report any weirdnesses you see with this release to
> rt-devel at lists.fsck.com
> 
> 
> 	Best,
> 	Jesse
> 
> 
> 
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