Re: [office] Re: office-comment -> JIRA migration

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

On 05/06/09 04:13, robert_weir@us.ibm.com 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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