bugzilla.kernel.org migration tasks

[Dave Miller]

To clear up a couple misconceptions, 5.1 is abandoned in favor of 6.0, not 5.2.  If you're already running 5.1.x you will want to wait for one of the 5.9.x releases at a minimum before upgrading. Going to 5.2 will not be easily possible, since it's actually based on the 5.0 branch instead of 5.1.  Maybe we need to renumber that branch as 5.3.x until we're ready to actually kill it off? You're not the first person to be confused by this.

As for your MySQL EOL problem, MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, and is in fact, a fork of it, and continues to pick up most of the changes to upstream MySQL. However, MariaDB did not port the commit to MySQL that broke compatibility with Bugzilla (they thought it was a bad idea, because it broke a lot of other things besides Bugzilla, as well), so all newer versions of MariaDB work fine with Bugzilla.  If your maiin concern is security support for the database server, your easiest path there is to switch to MariaDB, which would require no changes to Bugzilla itself or its database.

6.0 should have support for newer MySQL as well once it comes out. That's one of the things on the release blockers list.

On January 16, 2023 4:18:17 PM EST, Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>Hello, everyone:
>
>The bugzilla.kernel.org installation is currently on version 5.1.1, which I
>believe is abandoned in favour of continuing 5.0. It is also dependent on a
>very ancient MySQL version, which is about to be EOL'd at AWS (where our
>installation is running).
>
>I was hoping I could get some guidance about what is the best plan of action
>for us:
>
>1. migrate to postgresql, then downgrade to 5.2 when it's out?
>2. downgrade to 5.0.4 now and *then* migrate to postgresql?
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>-K
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