[aur-general] merging of aur3 comments into aur4
Are there plans to merge comments made on aur3 into aur4 at the end of the transition period? Seems like users still like to leave comments on aur3, and even if not all that important, it might be useful to have them merged when aur4 goes live. -- Joakim
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 at 13:43:13, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
Are there plans to merge comments made on aur3 into aur4 at the end of the transition period? Seems like users still like to leave comments on aur3, and even if not all that important, it might be useful to have them merged when aur4 goes live.
No, there is a big fat red warning on the aur.archlinux.org front page that Any changes to the AUR, including package submissions, comments and votes, made after 2015-06-08 will be lost! We cannot merge comments easily as there would be conflicts with comments added on aur4.archlinux.org in the meantime.
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Joakim
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. -- Joakim
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.
participants (3)
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Connor Behan
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Joakim Hernberg
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Lukas Fleischer