#7426 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Journal in f7 disappears after olpc-update to f9

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Zarro Boogs per Child
<bugtracker at laptop.org> wrote:
> #7426: Journal in f7 disappears after olpc-update to f9
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>   Reporter:  mikus      |       Owner:  tomeu
>       Type:  defect     |      Status:  reopened
>   Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
>  Component:  datastore  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
>  Resolution:             |    Keywords:  blocks:8.2.0 8.2.0:?
> Next_action:  design     |    Verified:  0
>  Blockedby:             |    Blocking:
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>
> Comment(by tomeu):
>
>  Replying to [comment:23 cscott]:
>  > My full suggestion was that we downgrade xapian in 8.2, to buy us time
>  to consider a better fix, either in 8.2.1 or 9.1.  With tomeu's "metadata
>  in json files" patches in 8.2, writing a 'downgrade-xapian' script for 8.2
>  would be much easier than writing one for 8.1.
>
>  I'm ok with this, but note that people that have been testing 8.2.0 builds
>  till now will be unable to read their datastores.
>
>  Kim, Greg, can you give your opinion on this?

Hi, can we agree on what needs to be done here? Any of the two options
will disturb people, which is best?

Thanks,

Tomeu