Hi Daniel, Good to see you. :) I know Mark's working on getting the journal-import function working; you may want to talk with him first, to make sure you have everything in order.
Be aware though that recreating comments from local backup files shouldn't be possible; it's all too easy to change your local backups to make it seem like somebody wrote something they didn't. The only trusted source from which we could import comments from LiveJournal would be from livejournal.com itself. I'm fairly sure Mark's working on that too. By the way, as a fellow Perl hacker, you might find http://code.livejournal.org/svn/livejournal/trunk/src/jbackup/jbackup.pl to be useful; it's a Perl script that can back up everything in your LJ, including comments, into a file, which you can then export to XML or HTML. Having an XML dump of your journal in one file makes it nice and easy to parse later if you want to do something with it. :) - Sophie. On 1/6/09, Denny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 11:35 -0500, Daniel Allen wrote: > > I'm here via various conversations on LJ this morning, ending up at > > xb95's journal. I'm not an LJ hacker, but I am a perl guy. I've spent > > a chunk of the morning help non-technical friends get their LJs backed > > up with http://hewgill.com/ljdump/ just in case yesterday's firings > > aren't the end of the bad news this week. > > > I think it's considered unlikely that LJ will vanish overnight. > However, backups are never a bad thing to have. > > > > Browsing your bugzilla, I'm guessing this is premature, but how's that > > journal-import comin' along? :) > > > I think it's a way off for the core team to be looking at, but would be > a neat thing to have anyone else working on, and probably lends itself > well to being developed by a third-party. > > Obviously it would be a good feature to be able to advertise in the > current climate :) > > > > ...however, if this were a farmable task... there may be a number of > > coders such my myself who would jump on the task! > > > Go for it. What do you think you'd need to know before starting, if > anything? > > > > (If I were able to barter a weekend's work on it for beta accounts for > > myself and a few other testers... even better?) > > > I can't speak for the project (I'm just lurking around interested in > helping out and, eventually, signing up), but I'd be very surprised if > people actively developing tools for it wouldn't be considered useful > beta testers. > > Regards, > Denny > > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
