Re: Upgrading Jira and Confluence

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 04:20:45 UTC

  • Next message: Andrus Adamchik: "Re: Upgrading Jira and Confluence"

    Andrus, thanks for all your effort and endurance of pain on this. We
    do appreciate it.

    Chuck

    On May 9, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

    > An update on the server setup...
    >
    > Upgrading the server turned into a full reinstall from scratch. As
    > of now I installed the OS and restored Apache, MySQL and SVN
    > services. SVN access is read-only at the moment (see below why). In
    > the next couple of days I am going to restore write access to SVN
    > and install new versions of Jira and Confluence.
    >
    > Here are a few victims of the upgrade:
    >
    > * SVN passwords can no longer be managed via Jira, as there's no
    > SHA512 patch for the latest versions of mod_auth_mysql. So I am
    > going to create random new passwords for all WOLips committers and
    > email them to the addresses used for Jira registration.
    > Unfortunately there won't be a way for users to manage their SVN
    > passwords, and anybody having problems will have to email me for a
    > password reset. An alternative would've been setting up Atlassian
    > Crowd, but I'd really like to limit the number of Java apps we run
    > on the servers.
    >
    > (BTW, if somebody can send me a list of *active* committers, so that
    > I don't have to create unneeded accounts, that would be great)
    >
    > * There is a time window this Saturday night when a data loss
    > could've occurred, as I didn't shut down SVN/Jira/Confluence till
    > the last second and there is a gap between the last backup and their
    > pre-upgrade shutdown time. If any Jiras got created or code
    > committed within that time, it likely got lost. Let me know if you
    > indeed committed anything during that time and no longer see it. I
    > *may* still find it, although chances are slim.
    >
    > I'll keep this list posted on further progress...
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    > On May 9, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    >> FYI...
    >>
    >> Prior to Confluence/Jira upgrade I had to initiate an OS upgrade to
    >> get the latest MySQL packages. This is now in progress, so please
    >> don't try to access SVN, Jira or Confluence until further notice.
    >>
    >> Mailserver is on a separate machine, so the mailing list is not
    >> affected.
    >>
    >> Andrus
    >>
    >> On May 7, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    >>
    >>> There were a few security advisories recently on Jira and
    >>> Confluence. So I am planning to perform an upgrade of those
    >>>..bjectStyle.org. Can't tell the exact date, but could be as early
    >>> as tomorrow. This is a heads up letting everybody know that both
    >>> can go down during the upgrade.
    >>>
    >>> One thing I am afraid of is that the old "single signon" hack with
    >>> single account for Jira, Confluence and SVN will no longer work
    >>> (or will require a deployment of Atlassian Crowd). Will need to
    >>> investigate that prior to upgrade.
    >>>
    >>> Andrus
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >

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    Chuck Hill             Senior Consultant / VP Development
    

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