*TL;DR* - Please test
https://superset-next.wikimedia.org and let us
know of any problems. Thanks.
Hello,
This message is specifically addressed to any users of
superset.wikimedia.org <https://superset.wikimedia.org>.
We in the Data Platform SRE team would be grateful for your assistance
in the acceptance testing phase of an upgrade to Superset, please. Our
production Superset instance is currently running version *1.5.3*, but
superset-next.wikimedia.org <https://superset-next.wikimedia.org> has
now been upgraded to version *3.1.0* and is ready for testing. Its
database was copied from the production instance yesterday, so it is
relatively fresh.
If you could spend a little time reviewing whether your dashboards,
charts, dataset, and SQL queries etc. work properly, that would be
really helpful. There are lots of changes between the 1.5 and 3.1
releases, so please feel free to read through the following release
notes, where the highlights are listed.
* release-notes-2-0
<https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/RELEASING/release-notes-2-0/README.md>
* release-notes-3-1
<https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/RELEASING/release-notes-3-1/README.md>
One particular point of note in the latest upgrade is that a viz
migrations
<https://github.com/apache/superset/blob/master/RELEASING/release-notes-3-1/README.md#cli-command-to-execute-viz-migrations>
CLI tool has been added, which can help migrate legacy (Area, Bubble,
Line, and Sunburst) chart types to the newer ECharts based versions.
Please let us know if this tool would be of interest to you and we can
look at running it on your behalf.
Once we assess feedback from users of superset-next, we will be able to
schedule a date for the upgrade of the production instance. All things
being well, we would hope to do this upgrade within *a week or two*.
Feel free to share any feedback or queries about this upgrade in the
#data-engineering-collab Slack channel, or the #wikimedia-analytics IRC
channel, or any of the mailing lists where you read this, or simply by
reply if you prefer.
Kind regards,
Ben
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*Ben Tullis*(he/him)
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>