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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

just to let you know that we are currently working on a refactoring of 
the way that the OpenUpgrade analysis of the database layout is created. 
This was discussed with us by Credativ at the community days.

The current way of logging database layout representations to the server 
log and processing the log manually will be replaced by filling an ORM 
table and a set of wizards to create a suitable representation of 
database fields and XML IDs. Another wizard allows the developer to 
connect to an older release branch of the OpenUpgrade server to compare 
database layouts. The changes per module can then directly be written to 
the module directory in the appropriate migrations/<version> sub directory.

The vision behind this, for which I will have to credit Credativ, is not 
only to have easy access to the changes in the database per module (the 
analysis files will simply be distributed with the addons distribution) 
but also to move towards a buildbot setup to keep track of changes in 
trunk. For now, I am concentrating on the former objective.

Current status of this development:

The 6.1 version is ready for testing (but this is rather void as no 
older version is ready to communicate with)
    See 
https://code.launchpad.net/~therp-nl/openupgrade-server/6.1-use_orm. To 
work with it, install the module 'openupgrade_records' that now comes 
with it.

- The changes still need to be backported to 6.0 and 5.0 versions (6.0 
is only a couple of days behind).
- There should be some work left in reporting on missing modules and a 
change in module dependencies.
- The documentation needs to be updated to reflect these changes.

I should be able to continue working on this in the coming weeks but it 
is not my top priority.

Sorry to confront you with nearly finished developments, in the best 
OpenERP traditions ;-) I had missed that this team is slowly gathering a 
wider audience.

Cheers,
Stefan.

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