Just to keep everyone updated - it looks like the import instructions/script are for self-hosted instances rather than Discourse-hosted instances, so I've pinged their support to see how best to proceed. Hopefully I can get a trial import done this weekend.
(worst case, I'll write my own script to mash the APIs over HTTP) Andrew On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Andrew Godwin wrote: > I have been moving house this week (plus, yknow, the election) so I haven't > got anything done, but hope to poke at it early next week! > > Andrew > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, at 4:34 AM, Carlton Gibson wrote: >> Hi Tom and Andrew. >> >> This week has been *busy *(shall we say) I know — can I assume you two are >> on this between you, or is there anything I can do to facilitate progress >> here? >> >> Thanks. >> Carlton. >> >>> On 30 Oct 2020, at 13:25, Tom Forbes <t...@tomforb.es> wrote: >>> >>> The export finally finished after a whole day running. >>> >>> The gzip compressed mbox: >>> https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/09XBHCr5L5BNcOBLob_HA2x6g >>> <https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/09XBHCr5L5BNcOBLob_HA2x6g#django-messages> >>> The entire raw output from the tool: >>> https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0LY_ccOgG6VjfV3INexGMXwZQ >>> <https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0LY_ccOgG6VjfV3INexGMXwZQ#raw_django_messages> >>> >>> We’ve got 56,282 total messages. I think the script from Discourse I linked >>> above would be the perfect way to import these as it creates the users on >>> demand and isn’t limited by the external Discourse API. I’ll leave that to >>> anyone who has access and is willing (Andrew?). >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> On 29 Oct 2020 at 16:43:07, Tom Forbes <t...@tomforb.es> wrote: >>>> It actually might be simpler than I suggested. Discourse has a script to >>>> import an mbox: >>>> https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/mbox.rb >>>> >>>> I’m running the box importer script now and it appears to work fine. While >>>> some people might have historical mbox files, it might be better to get >>>> the source of truth from Google Groups? >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> >>>> On 29 Oct 2020 at 16:11:04, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote: >>>>> I'd be more than happy to assist a trial of moving things to the forum; >>>>> we've had it running for over a year now, and I feel it's a much easier >>>>> way to run a community. >>>>> >>>>> Among other things, we can: >>>>> - Move posts to the right forum when they post in the wrong one (rather >>>>> than emailing back and saying "please post again over here") >>>>> - Delete people's personal information when they accidentally post it >>>>> - Remove CoC-violating posts and not leave any history >>>>> >>>>> Either I can try the import out if someone pops the right permissions >>>>> over to me, or I'm happy to supervise enough forum API access for you to >>>>> try it, Tom. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew >>>>> On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 9:23:45 AM UTC-6 carlton...@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> I don’t have any controls here. I’m pretty sure Florian would be the >>>>>> most likely candidate. 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