canister migration

steps

preparation

• add methods to populate the canisters stable variable variables
  • should be turned on/off through a env variable
  • when turned on, only deployer of the canister should be able to make calls

test run

• extract all important data from the legacy canister
• this includes
  • stable variables (includes assets)
  • constants
• map data to the correct power equalizer types locally
• push data to a staging deployment of a power equaliser canister using the methods exposed through the env variables (includes assets)
• run test suite that makes sure data is consistent

production

• extract the data
  • should we disable transfers/trading first?
  • what about outstanding disbursements?
  • what about the cap rootBucketId
• stop the canister
• reinstall power equaliser code
• run migration scripts
• redeploy removing env variable for population