Sandstorm Marketplace Version Significantly Outdated about wekan

[ocdtrekkie]

niscu is a small Mongo fork, it stands for "miniscule" like Mongo is short for "humongous". I believe meteor-spk moved from niscu to Mongo's WiredTiger engine in the first migration it did, but it retains it in case upgrading from much older grains.

Looks like the source is at kentonv\mongo
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/meteor-spk/blob/master/.gitmodules

[ocdtrekkie]

Hi, unfortunately the packaging tool Wekan uses for Sandstorm (meteor-spk) is pretty out of date, and Wekan moved to using newer versions of Meteor than it supports. The Sandstorm project is working on raising money to tackle some major upgrades (likely eventually this problem as well), but unfortunately we aren't there yet.

Note that unless you need newer features or fixes in Wekan, the version on Sandstorm should be perfectly adequate. Sandstorm apps are largely immune to security vulnerabilities, so they are safe to use even if significantly out of date.

[AndrewKahr]

Ah I see, really appreciate the detailed explanation on this! Is there a nice way to see the major differences between the sandstorm version and the current latest version or are they effectively equal feature wise?

[xet7]

@AndrewKahr

As seen at:

• Install Server section: https://wekan.github.io
• At top of https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Newest WeKan at amd64 platforms: Linux bundle, Snap Candidate, Docker, Kubernetes. Fixing other platforms In Progress.

That "other platforms" also means fixing Sandstorm WeKan is In Progress.

It is possible to help by funding development at https://wekan.team/commercial-support/

[xet7]

@ocdtrekkie

What is niscu? Is it some older version of MongoDB, where migration was made to newer MongoDB ? Does it migrate by copying data from old MongoDB port to new MongoDB port?

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/meteor-spk/blob/master/start.js#L140-L141

When running newest WeKan 7.21 at Sandstorm, there is error that MongoDB driver does not support older MongoDB used at Sandstorm. So migration would be needed:

a) To MongoDB 6.x

b) To FerretDB proxy to SQLite. Currently FerretDB is maybe missing support for OpLog, I will look what is status there. For attachments, those would be exported to files with mongofiles like https://github.com/wekan/minio-metadata converts from MongoDB to SQLite and files.