[request-tracker-maintainers] RT5 coming soon

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 19:32 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> Exciting news! How different is it to RT 4 and what does the
> migration look like? I'm just wondering what the versioning and
> upgrade story should be. Last time round we didn't get round
> to automating database upgrades between 3 and 4, which is
> unfortunately
> a bit of pain if we rename the package to request-tracker5.

Best Practical recommend installing into a new directory structure and
migrating things over. There are some internal changes. Because of that
I've used request-tracker5 directories and allow for v4 and v5 to be
installed at the same time, like we already have for v3 and v4.

Database migration requires a set of patches to be applied.

Given the nature of the changes I suspect that a manual transition is
still the best approach.

> It'd be interesting to know whether there are incompatible changes
> in the extension interface that would require a rename.

Agreed. I haven't even looked in this area yet!

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