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FreeBSD GNATS Upgrade

The aim of this project is to get the FreeBSD bug tracking system upgraded from GNATS3 to GNATS4 with the minimum outage, disruption and breakage.

This turns out to be reasonably easy, as long as the interdependencies on the FreeBSD project's machines are understood. The main aim of this page is to provide a place for documentation of these dependencies, along with the steps required for a successful upgrade and the order in which they should be taken. A secondary aim is to assure interested parties that work on this is ongoing, but is non-trivial.

Initially, development is being done on the bugmeister's local machine, but pertinent patches will be made available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ceri/gnats4 as they are deemed ready.

The vast majority of the work involved will require direct access to the FreeBSD cluster of machines, with elevated privileges. However, there are some patches that need to be written, so check the table below to see what still needs to be done. If you have specific queries or patches to contribute, then please contact bugmeister@FreeBSD.org with details of how you can help.

If you notice that a task is missing from the list, then please do get in touch with the Bugmeister and let me know!

• Documentation for GNATS3 is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/doc/3_113_1/index.html.

• Documentation for GNATS4 is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/doc/4_0_beta_snapshot/index.html.

• Discussion relating to this project should be directed to the freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org mailing list. To subscribe to the list, send a message to freebsd-bugbusters-subscribe@FreeBSD.org.

These tasks need to be completed before the upgrade can be started.

Task	Responsible	Last Updated	Status	Notes
Patch the databases/gnats4 port for WANT_FREEFALL_CFG.	Ceri Davies	14 January 2004		Patches
Commit the database/gnats4 patches.	Oliver Eikemeier	29 January 2004		At least one month for shakeout will be given.
Produce patches for www/en/cgi/query-pr.cgi and www/en/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi to work with GNATS 4.	Ceri Davies	16 February 2004
Produce configuration files for the new database.	Ceri Davies	14 January 2004
Set a date!	Ceri Davies			Blocked on the CGI patches
Create /c/gnats/README.GNATS4 on freefall	Ceri Davies			This is intended to notify users who cvsup the gnats database that an upgrade is forthcoming. Should be created one month before the upgrade happens. Blocked on setting of the date.
Arrange resource from admins@, or root access to freefall, www and hub.	Ceri Davies

These tasks list the steps that must be taken during the upgrade itself.

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	Not yet started
	Blocked awaiting completion of another task
	Work in progress
	Task completed
	Not planned

The original layout for this web page was borrowed from the FreeBSD C99 Project.