Everyone keeps saying "the move is complete" but I'm not sure it's
really true. I understand in theory that people were given ample time
and warning to migrate content, but in practice it has not worked.
.. Are there any
plans to copy over things like this? Relying on "maintiners" to do it
has obviously not worked. I stand ready to help but am not quite sure
what needs to happen from a technical point of view.
Thanks! It would be good to get an idea of the amount of damage,
in terms of differences between old and new server, before the old
server goes offline (has the offline backup been verified, btw? and
does it include all non-wiki content as well, such as accounts to be
deleted, and tools pages?):
- for static content, an rsync *dry-run* on the server directories
would give an idea of differences, provided those directories
are somehow identifiable (not spread over user accounts)
- for dynamic content, web-crawling both servers and comparing
the availabe URLs might be necessary (the problem here would
be to identify all roots for crawling - with multiple haskell.org
servers, not everything on www.haskell.org might be linked
from somewhere on www.haskell.org; eg, non-wiki pages for
hackage packages or Haskell tools..)
- checking the server logs for the new server will only give a
partial picture, but using the server logs for the old server,
and checking whether all successful URL requests also work
on the new server might help to spot gaps (build a Map of
new-server URLs, check old-server log URLs for presence
in that Map)
Then posting the list of missing URLs here might alert those
who care about them (or not, but at least fewer things would
disappear silently). It would at least give some concrete idea
of how complete the move really is.
Claus
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