Renaud Chaput

We will need to remember to remove our AR patches that will be introduced by https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29889

Rails 7.2.0 is now out, but we do not plan to update to it before the 4.3 release. We will look at this once the `4.3-stable` branch has been created.

Mastodon will not have a feature where you can approve individual quotes. We will have a per-account setting for the policy on any new post you create (accept all quotes,...

> It's also worth noting that from what I have picked up via various direct channels, i.e. this has not been officially announced, Mastodon will likely reuse this same Request-Approval...

If you want to migrate the content (not schema, it is best to let Rails recreate-it from migrations if possible) to PG, you can use https://pgloader.io It has a lot...

> Has ActiveRecord improved its support for recursive CTEs We (the Mastodon project) contributed to this recently, and our work is upstream in Rails 8.0: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/51601 For the data migration...

Regarding scenic, the recently merged https://github.com/scenic-views/scenic/pull/430 PR allows materialized view changes that do not lock the view. We did not test it in production yet at Mastodon, but it seems...

Is the post with a public visibility? Can the first instance be silenced/blocked on the second instance?

This needs to be merged before we release our next major update, as it will prevent to update from a pre-4.2 version to the version containing this.

No, before we release it? So people can upgrade to the latest 4.x release (and we know they will have done the migration) then upgrade to 5.0 (which will require...