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Merge System
dietrichm edited this page Jul 30, 2012
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Have a module ("Merge system") available supporting "formats" that specify how to convert and import data from another forum package database.
- 2.0.0 alpha 1: support UseBB 1.0 (#17) and UseBB 2 itself (to merge multiple v2 forums).
- 2.0.0 beta (1): add more packages (#38).
Allow imported data to be "merged" rather than replacing the entire existing set of user accounts, forums and posts.
The latter are the three most important aspects of a forum to be merged. More aspects may be added (profile information, subscriptions, etc) later.
Take care of:
- Clashes between user IDs
- Clashes between unique/indexed table columns
- User names
- Email addresses
- Character encodings (convert all to UTF-8)
- BBCode formats
A list of candidates for inclusion:
- Popular
- phpBB
- SMF
- MyBB
- Vanilla
- FluxBB
- Light
- PunBB
- Phorum
- bbPress
- miniBB
- Drupal forums
- UNB
- Others
- FUDforum
- AEF
- Commercial (depends on contributions of 3rd party users; low priority)
- vBulletin
- Invision Power Board
- XenForo
Goal for 2.0.0: mainly support the most popular packages. Afterwards, add more light ones.
Idea from the MyBB merge system.