💬 Migrate remaining comments from Disqus to Giscus

[babakamyljanovssw]

Cc: @bradystroud @JackDevAU @wicksipedia

Email subject: SSW.Rules - Reactions and Comments feature

As per email, we are going to give people 1 month to manually migrate their comments to Giscus. Then we need to migrate remaining comments using script.

References to migrate from Disqus to Giscus

Repo - Disqus to GitHub issues - https://github.com/JuergenGutsch/disqus-to-github-issues/tree/master/DisqusToGithubIssues
Repo - Disqus to Giscus - https://github.com/andrewlock/convert-disqus-to-giscus/
Blog - https://andrewlock.net/migrating-comments-from-dsqus-to-giscus/
Blog - https://www.eliostruyf.com/migrate-disqus-github-discussions-giscus/

Use ssw-rules-comments-migrator account to attribute comments, credentials are stored in Keeper.

Tasks

• Clean up already added or empty comments from xml data (exported from Disqus)

• For example you can add filtering to script, that ignores users who already added their comment by using Disqus usernames

• Use mentioned repos/blogs and create script to migrate remaining comments

• Test migration first on staging

• Staging - https://sarulesstagbbfslamgwndh2.z8.web.core.windows.net/rules/

• Staging discussions stored here - https://github.com/SSWConsulting/SSW.Rules.Staging.Discussions/discussions/categories/rules-discussions

• Migrate remaining comments to production

• Delete zz Reaction container from staging and production Azure Cosmos DB

• Delete Disqus widget

[babakamyljanovssw]

Delete zz Reaction container from staging and production Azure Cosmos DB

✅ Done - zz'd Reaction container on both staging and production databases

[babakamyljanovssw]

I've created repo on SSWConsulting for migration script and the work can be followed here
https://github.com/SSWConsulting/SSW.DisqusToGiscus

[babakamyljanovssw]

I've tested script on staging repo, it has created discussions successfully but when I ran to create comments, the bot account was suspended in the middle of operation and all added discussions/comments are hidden at the moment.

I've raised support ticket - https://support.github.com/ticket/personal/0/3121232

[babakamyljanovssw]

cc: @bradystroud

GitHub support replied to my ticket about restoring bot account, and asked to create new ticket using email address associated with bot account.
With the help of @chrisschultzssw , we've created ticket using bot account.

Ticket number - 3136762

[babakamyljanovssw]

cc: @bradystroud @chrisschultzssw

Update:

GitHub Support has cleared restrictions from bot account, and can be used with the script now.

But as per my conversation with @adamcogan, he wants first to call people and ask them to add their comments. So running the script approach to migrate comments is on hold for now.
I have drafted the list of SSW users with their comments and link to the rule, I will try to get people and ask them to add their comments.

[babakamyljanovssw]

Update:

I wasn't able to continue working on this and from next week I will be starting client work.

The migration script is ready and can be run to create discussions with comments using Disqus exported xml file.

Script - https://github.com/SSWConsulting/SSW.DisqusToGiscus
To export Disqus comments as xml file - https://sswrules.disqus.com/admin/discussions/export/

But first of all before running the script, need to to contact people individually and ask them add their comments.

List of users who added comments is added to Keeper:
Keeper | Client Secrets | DisqusToGiscus Migration | Users that added Disqus comments