On 14/06/15 09:03 AM, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:01:45 +0200 Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@archlinux.org> wrote:
We cannot merge comments easily as there would be conflicts with comments added on aur4.archlinux.org in the meantime. Why would there be conflicts merging the comments? Not that I know anything about the details of how this is implemented.
When a comment goes in the database, it contains the ID of the package it belongs to as well as its own ID which should be unique in the set of all comments. Now that Aur3 and Aur4 have different numbers of comments, new ones cannot have their IDs blindly copied over. With an Aur3 comment, one would have to shift its ID by the number of Aur4 comments added between June 8 and July 8. Its package ID will also have to change to the ID of whatever package has the same name in Aur4. This is not insurmountable, but since there is ample warning this time, I think it's fine to request that users double post if they really think their comment belongs on both Aurs.