Contribute

In order to contribute to the OpenUpgrade project, please

Post your code contributions as pull requests on https://github.com/OCA/OpenUpgrade
Donate to the Odoo Community Association (https://github.com/sponsors/OCA)
Hire any active contributor to this project to help you migrate your database, and give back any code improvements developed during the project.

How to contribute new migration scripts

To Contribute to OpenUpgrade you must make one pull request per module.

For example, if you want to propose the migration script of the account module from version 15.0 to version 16.0:

Always ensure that there is no work already in progress by a community member. For that purpose, go the issue named “Migration to version NN.0” on GitHub, where NN is the version for which you want to propose the script. here.

Sometimes, the pull request is not yet registered in the issue, so it’s not bad to do a search on the opened pull requests with the name of the module to look for.

Then, ensure that all the dependencies of the module are mark as done or Nothing to do in OpenUpgrade for that version. For that purpose, refer to Coverage Analysis. In our example, check the depends key of the manifest of the account module If some dependencies are missing, you should start by migrating these modules.

Note

It’s not strictly necessary to make contributions in the order of dependency, but you may face errors that are not related to your contribution, if you don’t follow this order. For example, the sale_stock migration script may fail, if the stock migration script has not been run upstream.

As other OCA contribution, create a new branch, from an up to date OCA branch:
git checkout -b 16.0-mig-account
Make a copy of the analysis file with the suffix _work.
cd ./openupgrade_scripts/scripts/account/16.0.1.2/
cp upgrade_analysis.txt upgrade_analysis_work.txt
Explain the changes to do in the upgrade_analysis_work.txt. For each line, add a prefix, and explain your analysis:

NOTHING TO DO, and why it’s nothing to do

DONE: pre-migration/post-migration: indicating the what and maybe the why.

TODO: This shouldn’t be usually done.

Note: You can reorder lines and group them together for including all of them in a “logical” block for putting only one comment. Examples: all the noupdate=0 new and del ir* records, or the NEW and DEL lines for a field that is renamed.

Write pre-migration.py and / or post-migration.py scripts in the same folder.

Comment / uncomment lines in noupdate_changes.xml.

(Read more in Migration script development)

Finally, update the coverage file in docsource/modulesXX-YY.rst, and mark the module as done, Nothing to do, etc.

(Read more in coverage legend detail.)

Finally, commit and push your changes.
git add .
git commit -am "[OU-ADD] account"
git push MY_REMOTE 16.0-mig-account
Note:

For a fix of an existing migration scripts, use [OU-FIX]

For an improvement of an existing migration scripts, use [OU-IMP]

Propose your changes to the community for review, opening a Pull Request on github.

Community involvement

Writing migration scripts for Odoo is a lot of work, that can not be accomplished by a single party. We need your help.

If you are at all interested in discussing strategic, functional or technical issues, please post an issue on the Github project: https://github.com/OCA/OpenUpgrade.

If you are a developer, give the OpenUpgrade software a go and give us feedback. If you use the software, provide the project with your issue reports and any migration scripts that you develop. Help to improve the developer tools and any existing or newly proposed migration script contributed by others.

If you are an Odoo consulting company, use the tools to help your customers migrate to a newer major release of Odoo and contribute the scripts that you developed in the process.

If you are are using Odoo professionally within your organisation, consider hiring a Odoo consulting company to migrate your configuration using the technology provided by this project, and insist that the resulting migration scripts be contributed back.

If you are an independent, knowledgeable user of Odoo and the OpenUpgrade project covers the modules that you have in use, try and use the software to upgrade a copy of your database and give us feedback.

Thank you!