--- On Thu, 9/8/11, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... > I see you closed INFRA-3917. >
I like to clean my own mess, yes. > Keep in mind that there appear to be others willing to > struggle with Confluence migration (CWiki?). > That makes me very happy! Anyone can reopen the issue: the problem I see is that it's basically only infra@ that can do this conversion: I have no idea if/how someone else can mirror the original information and assuming we can get a dump (which will likely be big) after running the conversion it has to be uploaded in the CWiki server for review. > A problem to consider in contingency planning: What it > means to lock down the current wiki during conversion. > And is the MW kept running for read-only viewing while > conversion takes place, either bit by bit or > wholesale? Parallel live operation does not > appear practical. > It depends: if the conversion script is fast and we are not really editing our MW VM, I wouldn't worry about locking, specially just for a test conversion. If we see the test conversion could produce some workable result we could use a snapshot. I agree it will be tough but if we could rescue say 60% of the information, it would certainly be worth it. > I think Confluence migration remains as a > potentially-necessary Plan B or a potential following Plan A > if needed for the long run. The analysis TerryE > provided suggests that it won't be easy whenever it is > done. I'm thinking it should not be done first if MW > can be operated in the short term. > I agree, there's just not anything I can personally do about it and this being about *doing* and not just proposing I felt it was a matter of honesty to close the issue :(. Pedro.