On 05/06/09 04:13, wrote:
> The comment list migration is done: 1495 comments in 3m 18s.
Great!
Michael
>
> For those who are interested, what I did was:
>
> 1) Python script to scrape the mailing list archives pages to extract the
> subject, author and date fields.
>
> 2) Script forms the correct URL parameters needed for the JIRA REST API
> and writes these out to a text file, one line per comment.
>
> 3) Use tac to reverse the order of the file
>
> 4) Use wget to process each line in the reversed file
>
> Of course, you could do this all in Python directly, and in fact I had it
> that way originally. But it is far easier to recover from network or
> server errors, and pick up where you left off, if you have that
> intermediary file.
>
> I'll clean up the script and post it to the document library.
>
> We'll probably want to run this script on a regular basis, maybe monthly
> or even weekly when we are in a public review period.
>
> Give me a few days to clean up the migrated comments and synch them up
> with the status in our tracking spreadsheet. Once that is done we'll want
> to communicate this online tracker to the comment list and to SC34.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> Robert Weir/Cambridge/IBM wrote on 05/05/2009 03:23:39 PM:
>
>> Please take a quick look at the test project and let me know if
>> anything looks horribly wrong. If the test migration goes well I
>> will kick off a real one overnight. This may generate 100's of
>> notification emails to the list, and if so I apologize in advance.
>> Luckily this will be a one time conversion.
>>
>> -Rob
>
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