Hi, could somebody please post a sample file format that Vanilla Porter produces and that the Vanilla.rb importer expects?
I want to use vanilla.rb as the basis of a migration from MVCForum and my Ruby skills are too basic to follow the code.
Background
I’m about to migrate a forum from MVCForum to a Discourse version. I’ve done this once by writing a routine in Python and using the API to add the data.
Unsurprisingly I ran into lots of post limit, rate limit, permissions and performance issues. But the resultant forum has served to show the current membership what they might expect from Discourse.
The good news is that the membership wants to move to Discourse but the bad news is that I’ve got to migrate the data in the next 3-4 weeks with as little downtime as possible.
So, as I’m hopefully going to be an active contributor to the community, I’ve decided to learn a bit of Ruby and change vanilla.rb for my needs.
I am thinking about turning my version of the vanilla.rb routine into a generic json import that can be configured through mapping files so that those with low coding skills (myself currently) might be able to configure it instead of coding it.
Thanks in anticipation.