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February 14, 2005

Getting A Munuve On

I've updated MT3 to 3.15, and MT Blacklist 2 to 2.04b (and still no de-spam button, darn it!) and re-applied my little import-it-yourself patch. With that done, and the secret volunteer program getting under way, and all the server and spam problems squished, we should be able to restart the upgrade.

The current plan is to migrate the blogs across one by one. This will change your post numbers, and so possibly change your permalinks.

There is one other option: The Big Bang Upgrade. Rather than transferring blogs to MT3 one at a time, just upgrade the entire MT2.6 installation. From what I've seen, this should basically work. Probably. I think.

Well, anyway, the way I (almost) have things now, I will be able to step back and everyone will be able to move their blogs themselves. Cut and paste, export and import, rebuild - ta da! All without direct Pixy intervention.

So what do people think? Would you rather take a little time and move yourselves to MT3 when you're ready? Or risk the Big Bang? (I'll note that there's no chance whatsoever of losing your blog either way; we have backups everywhere.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:33 AM | Comments (30) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 "Put me in cold, I'm ready to play, today."

Either way is fine with me. My templates need a tad of tweaking to function in MT3 but Rob's already got those set to fly so just lemme know what's to do and I'll do it.

Posted by: Jim @ at February 14, 2005 10:33 AM

2 Either way - in fact my templates are screwed at the moment... so the sooner I convert the better (and I have backed up all my posts just in case...

Posted by: Ozguru @ at February 14, 2005 10:35 AM

3 There are a lot of non-techie type Munu's who're gonna need help either way, of course. I'd think that doing it in one swell foop would be the way to go.

If we go that route, are the permalinks going to be mucked up? Is that a foregone (I link back to previous posts quite often)?

Posted by: Ted @ at February 14, 2005 10:59 AM

4 I agree with Ted; one fell swoop. And count me in among the non-techie types who are going to need a whole lot of help to do it in one piece.

Posted by: Rachel Ann @ at February 14, 2005 12:29 PM

5 Either way is OK, but I'd like to know more as per Ted on what happens to post numberings and permalinks. That could cause problems.

Posted by: Simon @ at February 14, 2005 01:20 PM

6 Advantage of the swell foop plan is than post numberings don't change. Of course, then we have two separate MT 3 installations... But it would be easier to merge them than to migrate people one at a time.

Hmm, says Pixy.

Okay, I'll set up a test environment with a copy of the MT 2.6 setup and upgrade it to MT 3.1. And see what happens.

If it mostly works, we'll try it that way. If it's a mess, we'll go back to the one-blog-at-a-time way.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 14, 2005 02:20 PM

7 GAH! Templates don't port well ... they'll render ok but commenting isn't going to happen without some minor modifications for each blog.

I'll see if I can be a bit more precise than that in a minute (digs out MT 2.6 and reinstalls...)

Posted by: Rob @ at February 14, 2005 04:04 PM

8 I like the idea of the mass upgrade with post keepage.

Oooh...I'm all a-tingle with anticipation.

Posted by: Jim @ at February 14, 2005 04:05 PM

9 Oh and post numbering is a toggle option in the config of MT3 but I guess you knew that

Posted by: Rob @ at February 14, 2005 04:10 PM

10 I say go for broke and try the Big Blog Bang. If it goes wrong, you at least get pretty sparks.

And Jim: The lyric is "Put me in coach..." Not cold.

Posted by: Victor and his seventeen pet rats @ at February 14, 2005 04:19 PM

11 "Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"

Push The Big Button.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at February 14, 2005 04:39 PM

12 Victor - I fly business class, never coach. You get extra pretzels in business class.

Posted by: Jim @ at February 14, 2005 07:27 PM

13 I have always been a proponent of big bangs....

Posted by: Susie @ at February 14, 2005 07:38 PM

14 Well, if we're going for big bangs, then the more the merrier I always say.

(yeah, like I've ever had the chance to say that)

Posted by: Ted @ at February 14, 2005 10:17 PM

15 Big Bang is my vote

Posted by: Mookie @ at February 14, 2005 10:28 PM

16 I'm all for whichever one keeps the old post#'s which is how at least 80% of my traffic gets to my site.

So Big-Bang away!!

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford @ at February 14, 2005 10:42 PM

17 I've made a test copy of the database, and I'll do a trial upgrade today.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 14, 2005 10:42 PM

18 I have a complete copy of our MT 2.6 environment up now. After some trouble with PHPMyAdmin, stupid cow of a thing. I eventually went back to raw SQL, which is also a stupid cow of a thing, but at least it's a stupid cow that works. Where's my angry smiley?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 15, 2005 02:56 AM

19 Just making sure I haven't broken anything yet...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 15, 2005 03:39 AM

20 On my way in I noticed that Muniviana has been comment spammed and trackback spammed.....is there any way an additional someone could have editing permission for the group home blog to clean up the vermin droppings? I only suggest it because, Dearest Pixy, despite evidence to the contrary, you've got to sleep some time...

Posted by: Susie @ at February 15, 2005 08:58 PM

21 Bring it!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at February 15, 2005 11:10 PM

22 Tag, Susie, you're it!

Any other volunteers?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 16, 2005 05:26 AM

23 Lemme at it, boss. For as much of MuNu as you feel appropriate.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at February 17, 2005 02:15 AM

24 I'm late to the party (I've been busy tending to my She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, who rolled her Jeep on the 10th and keeps trying to go to work despite the doctor not releasing her yet), but [whispers] "Push the Red Button!"

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