Before we can even consider testing 1.8, we have this big problem of converting to the new griefprevention, now why is this a problem?

The version we are on, is a very very old version without UUID support, the main developer gave up developing for it and the project was taken over by a new developer that re-wrote the plugin pretty much from scratch, Now hes made a lot of performance increases, but hes simplefied the plugin complelty to the point wheres theres hardly any control, so If I wanted to limit something specific, I cant do it.

Not only that, but since out old system uses just usernames to store the claims, we have to do a lookup for every single player thats ever played on the servers UUID, this is close to 15,000 players now.. I did a dry run on my home server and it took 11 hours, thats when we had about 11,000 players to convert, so im assuming this will take 15 hours, and that wasnt without flaw, A lot of the claims were not converted, so you can see why im a little worried about this changeover.

Now, Im going to have to do it at somepoint, either locally or whitelist the server until its done, Either way I will have to lock any changes to claims happening in that time.

I see GriefPrevention as our most important plugin, out of everything, and I know its not going to be a flawless transaction, we would never have such luck.

So, im going to trial another dry run today, leave that going and see how long it takes to try and see if claims are lost on my development server at home.