[aur-general] Metadata from aur3
Hi, Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated too late lost all of that metadata.) Cheers, Ivan
On 24/11, kaptoxic wrote:
Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated too late lost all of that metadata.)
The data was removed when it was announced that it would be. Maintainers had plenty of time and ample warning beforehand. -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
On 11/24/2015 03:21 PM, kaptoxic wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated too late lost all of that metadata.)
Cheers, Ivan
As far as I know, all the metadata was deleted. (I'm not happy about this either.) The PKGBUILDs, however, are archived. You can fetch a PKGBUILD from the archive and push it to aur4 if you would like to maintain it. https://github.com/aur-archive --Kyle
On 11/24/2015 06:56 PM, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
On 24/11, kaptoxic wrote:
Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated too late lost all of that metadata.)
The data was removed when it was announced that it would be. Maintainers had plenty of time and ample warning beforehand.
As far as I know, all the metadata was deleted. (I'm not happy about this either.) Well, happy or not, somebody decided that was the right thing to do and
No, they did not. Anyway, thanks for the info. the data is now gone.
The PKGBUILDs, however, are archived. You can fetch a PKGBUILD from the archive and push it to aur4 if you would like to maintain it.
https://github.com/aur-archive
--Kyle Thanks. Yes, I know, at least PKGBUILDs are archived. (They always were, even for deleted packages, if I am not mistaken.)
Ivan
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:49:14 -0500
kaptoxic
On 11/24/2015 06:56 PM, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
The data was removed when it was announced that it would be. Maintainers had plenty of time and ample warning beforehand.
No, they did not. Anyway, thanks for the info.
If 2 months isn't ample warning, your not a very good maintainer.
On 27/11, kaptoxic wrote:
On 11/24/2015 06:56 PM, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
On 24/11, kaptoxic wrote:
Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and comments) and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated too late lost all of that metadata.)
The data was removed when it was announced that it would be. Maintainers had plenty of time and ample warning beforehand.
No, they did not. Anyway, thanks for the info.
They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told about it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about on this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before the 2 months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample warning? -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:16:47 +0100
Johannes Löthberg
They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told about it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about on this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before the 2 months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample warning?
It's water under the bridge by now, but I also think it's a pity the meta data was lost. Warning or not ;) -- Joakim
On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 15:16 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told about it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about on this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before the 2 months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample warning?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also think I remember something about a period of time if the maintainer didn't migrate it, it became fair game. If that was the case, if a package didn't make it to the aur4 during that time, there was not much interest in it. If my memory isn't failing me, it was two months total, the first was only maintainers from aur3, and the second was anyone who wanted to move some over. Mark Weiman
On 28/11, Mark Weiman wrote:
On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 15:16 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told about it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about on this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before the 2 months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample warning?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also think I remember something about a period of time if the maintainer didn't migrate it, it became fair game. If that was the case, if a package didn't make it to the aur4 during that time, there was not much interest in it.
If my memory isn't failing me, it was two months total, the first was only maintainers from aur3, and the second was anyone who wanted to move some over.
You're not wrong, but how is this relevant? -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 20:50 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
On 28/11, Mark Weiman wrote:
On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 15:16 +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
They had 2 months to migrate their packages, and they were told about it, and the fact that it would be happening has been talked about on this ML since December last year, and was emailed about it before the 2 months started. In what way is that not plenty of time and ample warning?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also think I remember something about a period of time if the maintainer didn't migrate it, it became fair game. If that was the case, if a package didn't make it to the aur4 during that time, there was not much interest in it.
If my memory isn't failing me, it was two months total, the first was only maintainers from aur3, and the second was anyone who wanted to move some over.
You're not wrong, but how is this relevant?
Just further saying that there was plenty of opportunity that someone could have moved a package to the new version. Mark Weiman
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Doug Newgard
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Joakim Hernberg
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Johannes Löthberg
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kaptoxic
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Kyle Terrien
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Mark Weiman