question.html vs question.summary

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We are migrating an old askbot website: the answers and comments disapeared and the questions are shortened.

The problem seems to be the following: instead of using the html column of the (new) askbot_post table, the website looks for the summary column of the same field, and since answers and comments have an empty summary, this explains both issues.

Indeed, if we replace:

• {{ question.summary }} by {{ question.html }} in the askbot/templates/question/question_card.html file
• {{ answer.summary }} by {{ answer.html }} in the askbot/templates/question/answer_card.html file
• {{ comment.summary }} by {{ comment.html }} in the askbot/templates/macros.html file

Then we have a good website. It seems that the change that creates this problem is the following change (sorry, not enough karma to post a link : github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/commit/0705ba63df2c3bf540109d52072c47317b3c105c

Moreover, the previous contents of the column summary of the askbot_post table are text, while the new settings, they are html.

Here are my questions.

• Why is .summary replacing .html in the templates ?
• In the current setting, is there a difference between the columns html and summary in the askbot_post table ?
• If those columns are different, how to rebuild the old summary column according to the new convention (otherwise i can simply copy the html column over the summary column) ?
• Is there a plan to support such a migration officially, so that we do not have to fork the code ?
• What are the long term plans for those columns ?