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[Richard Mansfield <richard.mansfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, there has to be exactly one blog before the import before we need
to think about deleting it afterwards.  If there's more than one, the
user knows about multiple blogs and should be able to handle deleting it
themselves.

Second, if the blog has posts, don't delete it.

Then if we want to be fancy, check if the empty blog is in a view (and
don't delete it if it is), and finally whether the empty blog's mtime >
atime (and don't delete it if it is).


We might want to add a way for users to move posts around between blogs (it could be handy after the import).  Eventually it might be easier to give people just one blog each, and have a block that displays posts with a certain tag.

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leap2a import deletes existing blogs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544160
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Bug description:
 affects mahara

This doesn't matter when using Leap2A to create completely new user
accounts, but it certainly matters when importing it over MNet.

The problem is that the blog plugin has the following logic:

- At the start of the import, check to see if there's already a blog for
  this user

- When importing anything, create a blog if necessary

- At the end, if a blog has been created, and there WAS a blog at the start
  of the import, delete the original blog.

This is so that if a user gets created, and they get the default "Blah
Users's blog" blog created by default, and then new blogs created, delete
the "Blah User's Blog" since it doesn't make sense.

I'm not sure of the best way to fix this - do we have *any* way to check
that a given blog is the default blog, or one that a user created
themselves?

Either way, we should certainly not delete any blogs that have posts.
Still until we figure out the above question, I don't think we can avoid
data loss :(



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