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Sounds like a good plan. My only concern with the import is that the users are matched up, and it looks like that's being handled. The only reason I've wanted to keep LP Answers open is to not lose that content, and this takes care of that. Thanks for doing it, and lgtm.

--John



On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> we're ready to import the answers from Launchpad into Ask OpenStack. A
> script will import all questions, answers, comments (and data abou user
> accounts) from LP into Ask, tag them as the project of origin (nova,
> swift, etc). You can see the results of the test runs on
> http://ask-staging.openstack.org/en/questions/
> For example, the questions migrated from LP Answers Swift are
> http://ask-staging.openstack.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:swift/page:1/
> 
> We'll try also to sync accounts already existing on Ask with those
> imported from LP, matching on usernames, OpenID and email addresses as
> exposed by LP API. If there is no match, a new account will be created.
> 
> I'm writing to you to make sure that you're aware of this effort and to
> ask you if you are really, adamantly against closing LP Answers. In case
> you are against, I'll try to convince you otherwise :)
> 
> You can see the history of the effort and its current status on
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/+bug/1212089
> 
> Next step is to set a date to run the import. The process will be:
> 
> 1 - run the import script
> 2 - put Ask down for maintenance
> 3 - import data into Ask
> 4 - check that it run correctly
> 5 - close all LP Answers, reconfigure LP projects to redirect to Ask
> 
> I think we can run this process one project at the time so we minimize
> interruptions. If the PTLs authorize me I think I have the necessary
> permissions to edit LP Answers, remove the archives from the public once
> the data is replicated correctly on Ask, so you can focus on coding.
> 
> Let me know what you think about closing LP Answers, use Ask exclusively
> to handle support requests and about delegating to me closing LP Answers
> for your projects.
> 
> Cheers,
> stef
> 
> -- 
> Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org

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