Antonio,
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:28:25 PM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 05:00:57PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > 2. We remove multi-tenancy support from the package. Although I
> > really like the idea of the multi-tenancy feature, I don’t like making
> > changes to Debian packages that diverge this much from upstream,
> > precisely because they are hard to maintain.
>
> This.
Thanks for your response. Unless someone else responds differently, I will proceed down this route next week.
> > However, now that we have been shipping this multi-tenancy code, I
> > really don’t like removing it because it will break some current
> > installations.
> >
> >However, if nobody is able to update the multi-tenancy patch to support
> >the 6.x release, I think our only option is to remove the whole patch
> >and related code so that we can ship Redmine in trixie. I have started
> >the work of removing the code, but it is fairly complicated and spread
> >across a number of files, including debian/redmine.postinst and
> >debian/rules. My goal would be to migrate the default instance to the
> >standard Redmine file locations and include a NEWS entry explaining
> >that if anyone is running any other instances they will need to migrate
> >them to a distinct OS running a separate copy of Redmine. However,
> >there is a high chance this automatic migration will fail in some cases
> >I don’t anticipate, so I foresee a lot of pain with going down this
> >route.
>
> This patch was more necessary in a time before we had containers, and
> maintaining an entire separate OS for a different redmine instances was
> overkill. It makes much less sense to carry this patch as a
> Debian-specific patch today.
>
> I stopped using Redmine and caring about it a long, long time ago, and I
> have other priorities. I can answer specific Ruby/Rails-related
> questions, but I won't be really digging into this.
>
> Thanks for taking care of Redmine.
And thank you for your contributions to Redmine in the past.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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