Hi,
Short version: my client is considering subscribing to the Developer Edition for a year, but reverting to the Community Edition after. Is that something possible or does it require a lot of work for database migration or other?
I’m sorry of asking these here, but I failed to find the answers in the documentation.
For those who’d like a bit more of context, we use SonarQube Community Edition with our CI. However, we have a lot of topics going on, with a lot of branches on a lot of (Maven) projects (microservice-like), and monitoring the code smells and issues is a mess (different branches with different versions wreak additional havoc among all that).
I’m on the verge of convincing my client to subscribe to a Developer Edition, but they think of doing it for one year and then revert to Community Edition as Developer Edition would be less relevant. They are however worried that it’ll require work migrating from Community to Developer and then some more for migrating from Developer to Community.
About Community → Developer, this post seems to indicate that, if we use the same version, it’s fairly transparent.
About Developer → Community, though, it’s less clear. Concretely, would it be possible to just not renew the license but keep the Developer bundle (losing the Developer-exclusive features, of course)? And if we later wished to revert to a Community binary (for upgrading, for instance), would a database migration be necessary?