svn commit: r554855 - head/net-mgmt/pushgateway

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On 11/12/20 2:58 PM, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> Am 11.11.20 um 11:58 schrieb Mateusz Piotrowski:
>> On 11/10/20 9:04 PM, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>>> Author: rhurlin
>>> Date: Tue Nov 10 20:04:41 2020
>>> New Revision: 554855
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/554855
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    net-mgmt/pushgateway: Update to 0.10.0
>>>    This release changes the storage format. v0.10 can read the storage format
>>>    of v0.5–v0.9. It will then persist the new format so that a downgrade
>>>    won't be possible anymore[1].
>>>    [1] https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/releases/tag/v0.10.0
>>>    For this port 0.10.0, it is intended to replace it with a version >= 1.3.x
>>>    from about four weeks on. So there will be four weeks for the migration.
>> I am not sure but it sounds like it might be a good idea to mention it in UPDATING.
>
> Thanks for the hint. I talked about it with Gleb Popov, one of my mentors. He argued in your way 
> (thank you, Gleb).
>
> UPDATING usually contains important information about port updates. And a downgrade from 
> net-mgmt/pushgateway after an update from 0.10.0 to > 1.0.0 is not useful. So an entry in UPDATING 
> can help users to migrate in time.
>
> I will prepare a patch for an entry in UPDATING :)

Cool!

Also, remember about the quarterly branches. I am not sure but maybe it could happen that quarterly 
users are going to miss the migration window.

Best,

Mateusz