[Treebase-devel] TreeBASE migration project

[Hilmar L. <hl...@du...>]

Hi all,

to start us off on planning and coordinating the next steps for the  
TreeBASE migration I'll repost part of an email I've sent to most of  
the people on this list previously, but which hasn't had any serious  
follow-up discussion yet. As we agreed, this would be the time and the  
place to have that discussion.

Broadly, the next thing to work on would be moving the source code  
from the SDSC repository to SourceForge and have all developers work  
off of that, so that we can then branch off for the migration work.

As for the actual planning, in principle here is the list of things I  
see on our plate to sort out:

1. Status update
1a. middleware and UI source code, outstanding bugs
1b. database schema definition
1c. data migration from TB1 and testing of result
1d. unit testing of TB2 code
1e. user & usability testing of TB2 UI
2. Moving source code to Sf.net
2a. licensing cleanup issue
2b. import of code base into sf.net svn
2c. switch development repositories, make SDSC repository read-only
2d. content pages (project homepage, documentation)
3. Procedures
3a. regular activity updates
3b. schema changes
3c. DAO and middleware API changes

and subsequently, in broad strokes:
3. Hardware purchase & OS, software setup
4. Schema migration
5. Data migration script
6. Software migration
7. Testing
8. Flipping the switch

Any and all thoughts and feedback appreciated.

	-hilmar

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