[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #2678: Support optional import of build data from 0.8.x

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#2678: Support optional import of build data from 0.8.x
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Reporter:  dustin       |      Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  major        |  Milestone:  0.9.+
 Version:  0.8.8        |   Keywords:
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 The default 'buildbot upgrade-master' shouldn't try to read the pickles
 from 0.8.x builds.  However, at some point we should provide some option
 for import -- probably in 0.9.1 or so.

 I doubt this import will ever work *well* - there are lots of corner cases
 around encodings and the like that will probably trip things up.  So I
 din't think it should ever be enabled by default.

 Pierre has suggested reading from the 0.8.x JSON API.  This could be
 written as a contrib tool.

 We could also implement this in an optional behavior of upgrade master,
 controlled with {{{--import-pickles}}}.

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