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Seed Migration Wizard
Issue 505 from bugs.joindiaspora.com Created by: Wavesonics On Mon Nov 1 20:03:57 2010
Priority: Normal Status: New
There should be a wizard in the Account UI for migrating your seed from one pod to the another, all server to server.
This way contacts could be notified of the move in a secure way, and the old account could be deleted when the move was complete.
Comment by: Hexagon On Mon Nov 1 20:45:46 2010
+1
Comment by: Cathryne On Fri Nov 26 18:43:11 2010
+1 with a user-defined overlap time until the old account automatically closes.
This is sincerely critical .... any idea on the state of this ? (or the partial photo & xml export ? )
It's not being worked on yet. I guess it'll come somewhere during beta. On the one hand I think it's a shame, on the other hand I'm glad they are working on more usable things first.
I'm willing to work on this with someone else. Have a good amount of programming experience, but just learned Ruby...also, due to classes, unable to work on it every day.
Anyone else willing to help with this?
If there s need for it, i d be willing to help with this:
relevant experience: databases, replication, migration (12 yrs mysql, 15 yrs general sql), db architecture, coding: C, perl, php
no skills in ruby at all :(
great. i ll gladly contribute where it s needed - i m blank on ruby though.
my feeling is that we ll have to look a little bit at database structure, redundancies, in the process - though you rightfully say it s out of scope here -
but it s something i ll gladly comment on / help with.
Any progress on this? Seems like an important feature before going to beta.
It's not on the beta checklist, and though it is an important feature, I don't think it need be -- Diaspora's built on an iterative development process, so "Beta" is much more fluid (and possibly having less substantial meaning) here than it is in other sorts of Free Software projects. That last sentence is my opinion only, so it's fine if you feel differently.
More directly, I'm trying to learn the internals of Diaspora (strong documentation is...lacking), before I attempt this, as well as coordinating a release for my own Free Software Project in the next two weeks. I plan to attack it around Thanksgiving (US one, three weeks away). That's my approximate timeframe.
I'm not sure if or when I'd be able to help out on this, but whoever works on this, it would be ideal if the system could take care of updating all your followers/friends of the move for you. Transparently, too, so the remote pods will just receive an update when they next check for information. It just seems important that this doesn't recreate the hassle of changing email addresses or phone numbers.
Perhaps it would be a good idea if there is functionality to not only move accounts, but in the same process to merge accounts... And perhaps to sync more than one instance of an account between two or more servers: for redundancy purposes.
Would the move generate a HTTP 301 Permanent Redirect to the new page location, or would the old pod mirror the updates from the new pod?
That would depend on whether one moved or merged the account (301) or synced them (mirror). Although you should be able to log into either pod if you're syncing.
Hey, is this really abandoned? You advertised this feature on your very fist landing page: http://diasporaproject.org/
Yes, this would be great. What would happen if a pod closes down or doesn't update the version of Diaspora??
This issue is closed but linked to from
http://diasporaproject.org/#benefits
#2616 (mentioned as 'follow-up') is closed as well, so the only 'status' might potentially exist in a mailing list archive.
Wouldn't it make sense to update the home page to stop sending people here? I'd vote to remove that 'coming soon' feature, because it seems it's not. At the very least the link to this specific issue should be removed.
This is essential for the long-term viability of the Diaspora mission; the whole point ti to have freedom of movement. Still, great job Diaspora HQ.
This feature would be handy. Also since this is clearly dead, the "coming soon" should be removed from diasporaprojects home page.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/diaspora-discuss/zOpARcOPfoM/discussion is the accumulated feature discussion for this issue. This is still high priority, but apart from many ideas we never really got any code for this...
So we can't move pods easily yet? We just have to delete our old account and make a new one? I thought this was going to be a main feature but seems its not completed. I see that I can export data but not import. Least on Diasp.org which I plan to move from soon.
I've been waiting quite a while (years, by now) to sign up on a pod since it's unsure if I'll be able to move to a self-hosted pod later on. I was happy when I saw the "Coming soon" on the main page but apparently this is not something that's in the works. Is there any word on what the problem is? The UI? The code? The security?
Even a stupid migrate process would be cool to start off with - just to be able to import old posts (not trigger any federation for them) and do an automatic aspects creation and contact adding.
It would be great to have this function! I myself for example would be very interested in migrating from the joindiaspora-pod to a pod here in Europe. I feel that a function like this would make it more convenient for a user to continue using diaspora when their pod may be shutting down. It would be simple and great just to migrate to another pod and keep on interacting like nothing happened. It is a decentralized idea going well together with the idea of the concept of Diaspora*.
The lack of this feature is the only thing keeping me from signing up for and donating to Diaspora. I'm sad to see that its development has apparently been abandoned - seems like a pretty core concept.
