From 3b8821b7e6c00a34fe71b22f011841786bb9d7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeny Fadeev Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:11:05 -0400 Subject: moved some files and directories inside forum from root --- stackexchange/README | 62 ---------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 62 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 stackexchange/README (limited to 'stackexchange/README') diff --git a/stackexchange/README b/stackexchange/README deleted file mode 100644 index 64d8f5fb..00000000 --- a/stackexchange/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -this app's function will be to: - -* install it's own tables (#todo: not yet automated) -* read SE xml dump into DjangoDB (automated) -* populate osqa database (automated) -* remove SE tables (#todo: not done yet) - -Current process to load SE data into OSQA is: -============================================== - -1) backup database - -2) unzip SE dump into dump_dir (any directory name) - you may want to make sure that your dump directory in .gitignore file - so that you don't publish it by mistake - -3) enable 'stackexchange' in the list of installed apps (probably aready in settings.py) - -4) (optional - create models.py for SE, which is included anyway) run: - - #a) run in-place removal of xml namspace prefix to make parsing easier - perl -pi -w -e 's/xs://g' $SE_DUMP_PATH/xsd/*.xsd - cd stackexchange - python parse_models.py $SE_DUMP_PATH/xsd/*.xsd > models.py - -5) Install stackexchange models (as well as any other missing models) - python manage.py syncdb - -6) make sure that osqa badges are installed - if not, run (example for mysql): - - mysql -u user -p dbname < sql_scripts/badges.sql - -7) load SE data: - - python manage.py load_stackexchange dump_dir - - if anything doesn't go right - run 'python manage.py flush' and repeat - steps 6 and 7 - -NOTES: -============ - -Here is the load script that I used for the testing -it assumes that SE dump has been unzipped inside the tmp directory - - #!/bin/sh$ - python manage.py flush - #delete all data - mysql -u osqa -p osqa < sql_scripts/badges.sql - python manage.py load_stackexchange tmp - -Untested parts are tagged with comments starting with -#todo: - -The test set did not have all the usage cases of StackExchange represented so -it may break with other sets. - -The job takes some time to run, especially -content revisions and votes - may be optimized - -Some of the fringe cases are described in file stackexchange/ANOMALIES -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22