Migration process best practices

[Mohamed Amdouni]

Hello,

I would like to have your feedback about migrations. 

What’s the best method? :

1- create a new overlay from scratch and modify property files : cas.properties

Or 

2- modify only the cas.version 

Is it required/ recommended to use gradle in overlay ?

My current project is with maven. Migration from 5.3.x to 6.6.x

Best regards.

[Ray Bon]

Mohamed,

Unfortunately the overlay no longer has a git history, so upgrades are needlessly complex.

You are making a big upgrade so there will be property name changes.

It is possible to stick with maven, but most of the documentation assumes gradle. I switched to gradle when it was first an option, so unable to provide guidance on maven.

If you have local modifications / additions to cas files that are stored in your local version control repo, you may want to keep that history (and some of those files may need to be updated).

Assuming you have a development host, you could try the 'from scratch' approach first. 

I do not think there is a recommended upgrade process.

Ray 

On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 10:54 +0200, Mohamed Amdouni wrote:

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