Tails

To be able to reuse the content of the old forum in some way we need to finish cleaning it first. That process is documented below.

Using mc, the GNU Midnight Commander, you can then browse the forum content by chronological order.

• Move to the forum folder.
• Run the restore mtime.sh script that updates the modification time of both the original post and the folder containing the corresponding comments to the date of the original post, retrieved through Git. It takes as argument the maximum age, in days, of the threads for which to restore the date.
• Start mc in the forum folder.
• To mix both directories and file in the file listing, press F9 and choose Options > Panel options…> Mix all files.
• To sort files by modify time, press F9 and choose Left > Sort order> Modify time.
• To have a preview of files in the right panel, press F9 and choose Right -> Quick view.

This happens in the doc/sort_the_forum branch.

• Before pushing changes it’s good to check the forum for old questions without answers and possibly answers without questions:

  for i in * ; do [ -d $i ] && [ ! -f "$i.mdwn" ] && echo $i ; done
  
  for i in * ; do [ ! -d ${i%%.mdwn} ] && ls -l $i ; done

• Merge from master branch to get the new threads.

• Merge this branch into master to reduce the load on the server. Pushing such commits can take a while, even if they are only delete content from the forum…