API or protocol to migrate/import/export users [$70]
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1. to develop
enhancement
feature: federation
feature: user migration
feature: users and groups
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 36.9k
- Forks
- 5.2k
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 713
Description
Zot Protocol allows users to clone/merge/migrate user accounts across multiple physical servers. You can read about Zot/6 here in detail as it has been developed for Hubzilla and works beautifully. This would be an absolutely huge step forward for Nextcloud.
- Mirroring accounts across multiple servers for faster access times
- Preventing single point of failure when a user's server goes down
- Promoting free speech
- Decentralization
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Zot/6 description and determine how account cloning, merging, migration, and export would map to Nextcloud server. Define the API or protocol scope and acceptance criteria for mirroring, failover, and decentralization; no file or test is named in the issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100