Support for migrating comments from Drupal 7 #560
Description
This issue stems from my own need. I have a solution for it, which I'd like to share with others if it's within the scope of the project.
I am migrating a blog from Drupal 7 to Jekyll. While I do not need an interactive comment feature on the new Jekyll site, I do need to migrate and display old comments. Solutions such as Disqus seem to focus on the interactive comment feature part, so they are too heavy-handed for my needs.
By "migrate and display old comments", I mean that any post that previously (in Drupal) had comments would have those comments displayed in the new Jekyll equivalent post. Comments can have replies, and those replies can have replies, and so on. Comments at the top level of the post (we'll call this level 0) are not indented. Replies to those comments (at level 1) are indented underneath, and so on, to illustrate how the conversation unfolded.
Ideally, the comments are kept separate from the post itself, but are still file-based in nature. Meaning, you do not need an external service, database, etc to store or serve the comments.