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Title: Suggestions to help those trying to migrate from SMF
Post by: nwsw on December 03, 2014, 06:05:29 am

Currently on SMF 1.1 (utf-8); I am in the process of evaluating ElkArte. I would suggest a couple of changes that would probably help others in a situation similar to mine:

remove the old upgrade.php (https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/blob/development/install/upgrade.php) script and supporting files from the github repos, since it is broken and you do not seem to support or use it
add a short readme_smf_migration.html to the docs (https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/tree/development/docs) folder that directly links to the openimporter (https://github.com/OpenImporter/openimporter) and perhaps provides a short explanation that both forums must exist and use the same database with different db prefixes
perhaps a mention of migration possibilities (openimporter) in your release announcements, such as this one (http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=2086.0)

Title: Re: Suggestions to help those trying to migrate from SMF
Post by: emanuele on December 03, 2014, 05:38:54 pm

Is upgrade.php really that broken? Well, anyway it "has to go" at some point, so... good point.
Documentation is in general a very weak point at the moment... :( So much to document. ::)
We should document even OpenImporter, that would solve "any" import problem, and would be easier to point from here to "there", yeah.
OpenImporter supports importing from different databases for sure, it may be it doesn't support importing from different databases and different users, that I'm not sure about.
Good point again.

And welcome around! :D

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