[Setup] Re: Twiki and Plone - migration?

[Nick Davis]

Cátia Neto wrote:

> 
> There is a problem, though ...how can I migrate a great amount of
> information from twiki to plone? What is the best way to do this?
> 
> Thanks 
> Sofia Neto 
> 
Sofia,
   I don't know if this helps much, but it seems to me you could:

1. Decide how you want to arrange your data in Plone, using Plone (AT) 
content types such as ATDocument, ATFolder, ATEvent etc etc, maybe even 
ZWiki pages, and/or your own custom content types.

2. Write python code to construct such objects using data extracted from 
your TWiki site. This code could run as a batch job, or number of batch 
jobs, called with zopectl run.

This is quite a big task. Automating it this way would make it easier. 
You would have to learn a lot of things at once (probably most of us 
users of plone face that though). It would be very educational in terms 
of learning the underlying classes that make up Plone. In some ways I 
think such a bottom-up approach is a better way to learn Plone, than the 
  random all-at-once way most people learn it. ;-)

Regards
Nick