MAINT TEAM REVIEW: this tasks seems to have been abandoned

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I am unassigning this issue as it gives the wrong impression. I dont have enough hours in the day to look at this issue at the moment and keeping it assigned to me give the reporter hope that I might be able to look at it. I am very sorry. If this issue is a real blocker for production then I would suggest you look for resource in the community to fix the problem, I am happy to respond to emails and guide. Where the code base is Rwiki or Search, I have absolutely no problem with someone else working on the code, this after all is a community.

One practical concern is that conversions can only assume limited down time. Any installation with a sizable user base won't be able to take the system down for a few days. If a conversion will take more than (at most) a few hours then it it needs to be compatible with the system being up and being used. In this case the conversion needs to also be cluster safe, so that multiple servers can be running without affecting the conversion.

Linking https://sakaiproject.atlassian.net/browse/SAK-13608#icft=SAK-13608 to other issues related to the database conversion and data migration utility use in 2.5.