RobLa-WMF added a comment.

>>! In T572#10081, @chasemp wrote:
> So here is the proposal from the phabricator team :)
> - We can set ourselves up to fix comment metadata in the nicest of nice ways 
> for users
> - We don't know if we can do this first run during the actual initial 
> migration window, the time estimates didn't include this thinking.  But 
> certainly shortly thereafter, and maybe say once a week, once a month, or 
> every few months for awhile we can batch process things to an amendable state.
> - Part of the 'batch run' thinking is two fold.  We are not sure how this 
> will impact trying to do it during normal hours (in theory fine) and part of 
> that is it involves having to invalidate some remarkup caching so that 
> updated things are shown correctly.  Anytime you start invalidating cache on 
> a broad scale while users are doing their thing chaos can ensue so at this 
> point the thinking is scheduled off-hours runs.
> - After said batch runs user foo will now in theory be seamlessly integrated 
> into Phab with history from source only historically identifiable by their 
> external reference id (fl, bz, rt, etc).
> - I'm thinking 7 or 8 days of upfront work / testing to get this to a solid 
> state.  Part of that is lots of testing of partial cache invalidation, Phab 
> only has tooling to support global but that would be pretty heavy handed.

This seems like an ok compromise to me.  It feels a little hacky, but as 
@chasemp pointed out on IRC, there's no way to do this that isn't a little 
hacky.  It'd be nice to have a wider conversation about this, because I think 
it's going to be a surprising outcome to many people.  A concise and 
appropriately prominent explanation of this tradeoff as part of a wider rollout 
will be helpful here.

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