Yeah, I've kinda ran into a similar problems when I originally volunteered to help. I don't know how to go about it, without access to various data dumps and such that it appears only Contributors/PPMC members have access to.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffu...@tutopia.com>wrote: > --- 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. > -- --Matt
