From kde-community Thu Nov 29 12:47:45 2018 From: Harald Sitter Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:47:45 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: Discourse Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=154349570406681 On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:54 AM Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On donderdag 29 november 2018 11:32:12 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > > > In fact, I am also not sure why everyone seems to consider importing > > 10 year old forum posts a given requirement here. We migrated away > > from reviewboard with zero data migration, and the data that is in > > reviewboard is largely much more relevant than posts on why changing > > the wallpaper in Plasma 4.0 didn't work IMHO. > > I would for sure hate losing all those years of history and discussion for the > Krita forums. Posted artwork, discussions, development suggestions, answers to > questions. FWIW an approach I proof-of-concepted for reviewboard and which may also work for phpbb is to simply crawl a html snapshot and host that instead. i.e. one would still be able to view the content without having to maintain the software setup. Mind you, I fully appreciate that losing history is terrible no matter the data, my point is that dragging the data along into other software may not be the most efficient course of action. It's hard to say what, if any, excess technical requirements we have to migrate our current database, which is why I asked so many question :). Just migrating threads and attachments is something discourse can do just fine apparently, so if we need nothing else it's probably fairly cheap to pull the data along, if not we'll need to be flexible. HS