That is difficult to say - How long does a normal upgrade to 3.5 take on average? How long will the modifications take to implement on average?
A couple of hours, but maybe longer :ermm:
Best people to ask are Erwin, Brad and Stefan but I'm not even sure if they can give an accurate timeframe
Chris
Should take about 30 mins at most to get it online, you can prepare all the files beforehand, then just swap to them, and run the upgrade script. It should be possible to do everything else while it's online with the 3.5 files.
Should take about 30 mins at most to get it online, you can prepare all the files beforehand, then just swap to them, and run the upgrade script. It should be possible to do everything else while it's online with the 3.5 files.
With a database the size of this, I would image 30 minutes is something more like 3 - 4 hours
heh, it does seem like a reaaaally nice addition which is making everyone anxious, but i totally understand how much RL takes precedence so I will just say you can do it when your good and ready since i wish lots of admins waiting on me would always remember this too :-p
Why upgrade now? Wait for the bugfixed release. There's probably 100 bugs found and fixed since 3.5 went gold. Then again, I would imagine you guys have access to the CVS.
we don't upgrade to fast, but we do prepare the upgrade.
A lot of our hacks on vb3.0 can be done as plugins, so upgrading to the bugfixed version won't be a big deal