Working on a mailman2 to discourse migration script

[dachary (Loïc Dachary)]

For the record, the migration script reached a stage where it is usable and a HOWTO is available:

HOWTO migrate from mailman2 to discourse

I started working on this script last year and had the opportunity to put it to the test in May 2021 when migrating the Spip mailing lists. The script is still very young but I’m now confident that it is usable. There still are many manual steps involved in the import and I would love to have something like discourse import --mailman2 config.pck mbox-archives-directory that would “just work”. However I don’t plan to implement this. I’m happy with custom shell scripts and I don’t see how they co…