[p2pu-dev] users migration: full import/delete vs. notify/import on demand

Jessy Kate Schingler jessy at jessykate.com
Wed May 25 21:00:59 UTC 2011


hmm... good point!

Jessy
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, John Britton <public at johndbritton.com>wrote:

> To continue to support on demand migration means that we'll have to
> maintain the previous user system indefinitely. Ideally we can move all of
> the accounts to the new site and set the old site to read only mode. If
> anything ever happens to the old site, I would hate to lose the opportunity
> to migrate people.
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> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jessica Ledbetter <
> jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
>
>> And to get people that may have lost their way would be a reason I would
>> say migrate all so we have everyone when we do a site-wide email :)
>>
>> As Zuzel said we can use users.access to see how many are active.
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <
>> jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 for second option: there may be many users who had accounts on the old
>>> site who are no longer active. on-demand migration gives us better data
>>> about the who is actively interested in p2pu. it also actively draws users
>>> to interact with the new site. given how awesome the new site is, i think
>>> this will also serve as an all around good advertisement for where we are as
>>> an organization. it may re-engage people who have lost their way and fallen
>>> off the free-learning path! :p.
>>>
>>> Jessy
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>>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:15 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Account registration on the old site is disabled already. This means
>>>> that we can decide what to do with users that have accounts in the old
>>>> site and not in the new one. The two main options are:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Import all user accounts from the old site and provide a "delete"
>>>> functionality so users that do not want to have an account on the new
>>>> site. Cons: the data of how many users we have is compromised.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Keep supporting the on-demand migration of accounts (if the user
>>>> logins with their username/password from the old site), and rely on
>>>> the migration email/notification that is going to be send to all the
>>>> users of the old site (so the interested subset of those users comes
>>>> voluntarily to the new site). Cons: future broadcasts to all users
>>>> will only include users that decided to login on the new site.
>>>>
>>>> In any of those cases the usernames of old users will be reserved
>>>> because we are linking to the old profiles based on that id.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to forward this email to the community list or any other
>>>> p2pu mailing list if we need more feedback.
>>>>
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