Upgrade from 3.x to current

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Upgrade from 3.x to current

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In early 2015 I installed my first and only otrs community edition for a client.

Then never heard from them (well, almost never, once a few months later). I concluded they were not really using it.

Apparently they were, and are still and are happy. That site has had no updates in 3+ years, I think it's an early version 3. I see 6 is current, and the upgrade path is tedious, through each minor point of 3 and then 4 then 5 then 6.

Yes, there's a question here:

For those who have lived through this (unlike me who put OTRS out of mind), would you be willing to offer a high level, qualitative opinion how hard this upgrade path is going to be?

How disruptive were changes over the last 3 years, should I be looking at a couple hours per version and just rolling through them, or were some data affecting that required a lot of work to migrate? Yes, I'll eventually find each release note of each required version and read though it, not looking for details, but more of a "run for the hills" or "each upgrade was pretty automated and simple".

Note I also asked for a quote for the business solutions, just to see if it's viable to spin off this single client to someone more capable; no idea how that will compare to my effort, but it might be a better path. However, they were sold on open source, and may not want to change.

Thanks in advance,

Linwood
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Re: Upgrade from 3.x to current

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Hi Linwood,

It's hard to answer your question. From my experience it all depends individually on the amount of data (# of tickets, articles, etc.) and sometimes of the installed packages. And don't do this without a test upgrade.

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Re: Upgrade from 3.x to current

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root wrote: 08 Jul 2018, 09:28 It's hard to answer your question. From my experience it all depends individually on the amount of data (# of tickets, articles, etc.) and sometimes of the installed packages. And don't do this without a test upgrade.
Certainly not. I'm just trying to help them evaluate whatever quote for services we get against what I presume is a rather long upgrade process (especially since I haven't looked at the product in 3 years).
Linwood Ferguson
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