Talk:Flow/Converting talk pages

Various approaches
(BG: Flow). There are four ways to convert talk pages to Flow: (Tracked at T76682 and T78253). I would like to know what we would like to have. Gryllida 23:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Do not convert. Lose content.
 * 2) Shove old content to a non-Flow archive. (This one, coming from the Flow Team (now Collaboration Team))
 * 3) Implement refactoring features. Move old talk page discussions as a single Flow post per a page. Then manually — semi-automatically to a large extent — split it into topics and properly indented messages, so that it's eventually converted to the Flow format.
 * 4) Do it fully automatically. Parse signatures, indent with ":" and "*", etc.
 * I'm personally leaning toward #3, because #1 is unacceptable, #4 is unrealistic (people already tried it before), and #3 isn't too much work — these refactoring featuers are needed for processing a moderately bug RFC anyway. #2 has the disadvantage that old conversations do not start "Flowing". Gryllida 23:56, 11 December 2014 (UTC)