[Owncloud] testers needed.

[Robin Appelman]

>>       Upgrading to this branch from an existing installation will not>> work, rerunning the setup is necessarily.>>> Is it possible to fix this before the final release?> We should be able to provide an easy upgrade path for our existing users.

Yes, the only reason updating to the encryption branch isn't possible
is because it doesn't have the patches for it merged.
I've done it that way so encryption can be tested individually and we
wont end up with strange bugs there because of incorrect migration,
testing migration can be done with the filesystem branch

- Robin Appelman



On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:30, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
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> On 26.11.2011, at 01:44, Robin Appelman wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> the last couple of weeks I've been working on a series of larger
>> changes that will enable transparent server-side encryption.
>>
>> Due to the nature of the changes, merging these changes into master
>> without a lot of testing could end up in data-loss
>> for unsuspecting users, that's why I would like some help to test these changes.
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> Fantastic work. I will do some heavy testing over the weekend.
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>> The changes are on two branches in git:
>> - filesystem:
>>       Provides the improvements to the filesystem layers that were
>> needed to correctly integrate encryption into it,
>>       and holds the automatic database upgrading system to make those
>> improvements work on existing installations.
>>
>>       For this branch it's important that it is tested as upgrade on
>> top of an existing installation, just checkout the remote branch,
>>       navigate your browser to ownCloud and the automated database
>> updates should do the rest.
>>       While testing branch may result into database corruption,
>> possibly loosing user accounts, calendars and contacts. Stored files
>>       will remain safe.
>>
>>       After the update is successful the filesytem will be indexed
>> and no changes should be visible besides incorrect sorting of
>> files/folders
>>       and faster loading of folders with a lot of files/sub folders.
>>
>> - encryption
>>       Provides transparent server-side encryption for files.
>>
>>       This branch should be tested as a clean installation in order
>> to prevent possible any migration errors here.
>>       Upgrading to this branch from an existing installation will not
>> work, rerunning the setup is necessarily.
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>
> Is it possible to fix this before the final release?
> We should be able to provide an easy upgrade path for our existing users.
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>
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>>       No visible changes should exist for this branch except the one
>> listed for the filesystem branch, any file uploaded through the web
>> interface
>>       or webdav should get encrypted automatically (you can test this
>> by trying to open the file directly from the servers filesystem)
>> except
>>       some blacklisted file types (audio, video, images).
>>
>> If you encounter any problems, please list the used sql server, php
>> version and whether or not it was upgraded from an existing
>> installation.
>>
>> Any help testing is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> - Robin Appelman
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> Great work :-)
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> Cheers
> Frank
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> Frank Karlitschek
> karlitschek at kde.org
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