PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Tue, 10Aug10 21:44

Hi again!

In the list of differences I failed to mention the following:

6.- The usernames will be all in lowercase. For instance, I'll be trucla instead of Trucla. As far as I understand this is due to needs/compatibilities when converting phpBB2 into phpBB3.

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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Graen » Tue, 10Aug10 21:55

Trucla wrote : 6.- The usernames will be all in lowercase. For instance, I'll be trucla instead of Trucla. As far as I understand this is due to needs/compatibilities when converting phpBB2 into phpBB3.
Eek! Will we be able to update them once we're signed in?
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Tue, 10Aug10 23:32

This is something to see later. With computers everything is possible. Sometimes the problem is finding how... ;)
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby TheBrain » Wed, 10Aug11 03:47

I've had a quick look at the scrïpt (running it was a bit tricky without admin access to the forum... :P). To put it mildly, it has issues. Most importantly, in pretty much all cases the scrïpt assumes everything is without error (for example, the function that makes a new HTTP connection can return failure, but the code that uses it never checks for such failure). Now normally you could detect stuff like that from PHP notices/warnings, but due to a very mediocre implementation it emits a lot of those even when nothing is technically wrong.
So with the scrïpt as it is, it might fail to retrieve a page, but you'll never really see the failure in the output. I'd say this is probably how posts "get lost".

While I'm not sure why the bbcode extraction would fail, I presume it's because it drastically increases the amount of requests made (by a factor of 20, if I'm not mistaken). So failure is probably much more common.

Although I'm not making any promises I'll try to refactor the scrïpt a bit so it's more robust against these failures (retrying when a connection fails, checking against actual failure, etc.).
Sadly making it so that it recovers anything not recovered yet is quite a bit harder.

On the username issue, assuming that you're in no rush with the migration and you'd rather do it right the first time. It really shouldn't be that hard to adapt the queries emitted to the phpbb3 database structure.
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Sat, 10Aug14 00:32

Thanks to TheBrain, the lowercase problem in the usernames is solved. So forget about what I said before about it.

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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby cruiser » Sun, 10Aug15 09:38

even I understand less than 10 percent of what you guys are talking about...I see the migration is in good hands.
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Wed, 10Aug25 02:11

@Luke, @Squeeky and @Greebo: In spite of having read things to the contrary I thought that at least as a test I should try your suggestions.

And you know what? I don't know if some posts got lost. What I know is that I've got a number of them quite bigger than the backup I had done yesterday!

So, while not being directly guilty, I apologize to you three!

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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Squeeky » Sun, 10Aug29 16:45

Am I being naive? Or do I just not know what has transpired in my short leave (and it with be again soon)?

Trucla, do as best you are able.


I have just viewed that which I think you have mentioned. We can only expect the optimum up to the point that Shark nominates partial or full closure of this IP domain. I mention the partial since Arnulf notes that PMs apparently cannot be carried across; from my part that is not a concern.

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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Sun, 10Aug29 18:06

Hi Squeeky!

Better make a backup of your important PMs! ;)
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby SquallLion » Tue, 10Aug31 02:30

je veux savoir: il y a donc eu migration de la bdd ?
mais que fait la police ?
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Tue, 10Aug31 17:44

Pour l'instant il y a seulement des sauvegardes. Pas encore le définitif.

A plus!
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby SquallLion » Tue, 10Aug31 18:40

Ok,
merci de la précision, Trucla
mais que fait la police ?
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Graen » Wed, 10Sep08 01:11

Any news on the migration? Is it still planned, moving forward or has it been postponed?

Just curious... ;)
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Trucla » Wed, 10Sep08 18:04

Not yet the right moment, my dear Graen... ;)
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Re: PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

Postby Graen » Thu, 10Sep09 05:50

Trucla, you tease! [img]smile/blush2.gif[/img]
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