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Re: Preparing for Odoo 18

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ProLinear/PONTECH, Inc., Jacob Christ
- 18/10/2024 04:00:15
Stéphane et al,

I just joined the OCA a few days ago.

My background (sorry for the long introduction, you can skip to the TL;DR if you are busy):

I'm a software/electrictronics engineer and run my own little company and teach an embedded electronics class once a year at a local junior college.  A company I worked for tried to implement Odoo 2 years ago but failed.  I had never heard of Odoo but I still had a bad taste in my mouth from a recent SAP experience and I was intrigued.  A little research and I discovered that it was open source* and decided to try to install it.  It took me about 16 hours to figure out how to get Odoo14 installed.  I discovered the web authoring tools were better than my CSS skills and left it up and pointed my domain at the installation.  About a year ago I was trying to figure out how to upgrade Odoo and it seemed like my best option was to pay for hosting with Odoo S.A. I tried to make it happen at the time but it didn't work out for me.  Two weeks ago I got a quote for upgrading Odoo from 14 to 18 from an integrator and it came back that it should take between 15-20 hours to do.  I couldn't believe that it would take this long so I decided to investigate how difficult this was.  I quickly learned that I had to go from one version to the next one at a time and that I needed Odoo 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 installed.  Since it had been 2 years since I installed Odoo I had to relearn the process.  It took me about 2 hours to get Odoo 14 installed and I documented what I learned.  I blew away Odoo 14 and started over.  I was able to do the install in 30 minutes.  Then probably another 15 mins for each additional version to 18.  Next I spent 4 hours trying to figure out how to run OpenUpgrade.  Once I figured it out I was able to quickly get from 14 to 15, 15 to 16 (though some pictures resized at 16 in my store and I don't know why) and 16 to 17 but 17 wasn't working.  I took another four hours to figure out that the 16 to 17 upgrade is not working yet.  In all I spent about 13 hours on the process and decided that the quote I received was high if I figured out how to do upgrades, having never done them before.  More importantly I learned alot about Odoo and I feel more confident using it to run my business.  I also am willing to help improve Odoo and the scripts.

TL;DR

I would like to help improve OpenUpgrade but I don't know how to get started.  If nothing else, I'm happy to test 16 to 17 upgrades as improvements are made.

Jacob Christ
ProLinear/PONTECH, Inc.
+1 (714) 269-7256 Phone
http://www.pontech.com



On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 9:33 AM Stéphane Bidoul <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,

The 18.0 branches were created 10 days ago, and migrations are going full speed already.

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped and continued to help since, this is much appreciated !

We need to push an update to the dotfiles, with a new version of pylint-odoo with Odoo 18 support.
At the same time, we'll update the JS linters as well as prettier, taking advantage of an improved version of the xml auto formatter.

This may make some 18.0 branches or open PR red, so keep an eye on it.

I'll push that one of these evenings. In the meantime, PSC can already apply it by running "pipx run copier update --trust --defaults".

Please create an issue on https://github.com/OCA/oca-addons-repo-template/ if you encounter problems.

-Stéphane

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM Stéphane Bidoul <stephane.bidoul@acsone.eu> wrote:
Hi everyone,

If history repeats itself, we may have a new Odoo version 3 weeks from now.

I created the tracking issue to prepare OCA tooling for Odoo 18, including suggestions for improvements: https://github.com/OCA/maintainer-tools/issues/628

Contributions are most welcome, so don't hesitate to chime in if you want to help.

Best regards,

-Stéphane

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Stéphane Bidoul
http://acsone.eu/

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