Thread: Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure - Step 1: Inventory
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2012-06-27 , 10:09
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
Keep in mind there are over 60,000 registered members. We obviously want an archive of postings and to reserve user names. People interested in migrating and keeping their same username are probably going to have to take some affirmative action to do so. We will want to use the email address to verify identity. Cooperation from Nokia seems necessary to do that.
Let's see the lists of users in more detail:

- The forum has its own list, and actually I believe Nokia has little to do with it.
- Garage and Bugs have their own lists but do you need these services forward?
- The static website relies on the Garage users, but wouldn't be just simpler to have a new CMS and create whatever is needed? Maybe just a wiki, as many community projects do these days?
- About the wiki you could just copy whatever makes sense to keep, and we good with it. Or have a database dump of the content and export it to a new MediaWiki, starting with new users there.
- Users karma would be perhaps lost, but do you mind?

The part that looks more complex is the Autobuilder + Downloads. If a new infra is created based on OBS then perhaps there is a way to transfer all the existing packages and restart the list of owners? Or perhaps just a login prompt with acceptance of new Terms and Conditions for moving your data to a new database is enough. I'm sure Nemein can come with a proposal for this.
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