[Product-Developers] Re: GS upgrade step docs and tests

[Derek Richardson]

Derek Richardson wrote:
> Rob Miller wrote:
>> Derek Richardson wrote:
>>> Looking at the distributed source for GS 1.3.3, I see upgrade.py, but 
>>> can't find the tests or docs. Will someone point me at them? Or, 
>>> else, point me at a good web resource? /me remembers seeing a couple 
>>> good blog posts, but can't find them now...
>>
>> this blog post is probably the most detail that's out there, with the 
>> possible exception of martin's book:
>>
>> http://www.theploneblog.org/blog/archive/2007/06/21/genericsetup-improvements 
> 
> 
> Yes, a good post! That plus Martin's book is *almost* enough info. ;)
> 
>> we've started to use this upgrade infrastructure for the Plone-based 
>> parts of the OpenPlans stack.  you might find our setup useful as an 
>> example.  you can see it in our svn:
>>
>> http://trac.openplans.org/openplans/browser/opencore/branches/plone3/opencore/upgrades 
> 
> 
> Also helpful for syntax.
> 
> Is GS in the zope.org svn repository? I looked in the plone repos and 
> the collective and saw it not....

nm, found it at http://svn.zope.org/Products.GenericSetup/ . 
Unfortunately, this means I don't have commit right. Is someone 
listening that would take an upgrade-step.txt and place it in doc/ ?

/me will eventually get commit rights, but is waiting for unemployment 
(coming in August) to sign the contrib agreement without hassle

Derek