If you’re reading this post, you’ve noticed that we recently migrated our blog system out of Drupal into WordPress. This is the first step in our initiative to decentralize our various web properties and replace them with loosely coupled systems. Our aim is to make it easier to publish information and increase transparency into the Songbird project. Stay tuned for more changes to come soon.

In the process of migrating data, we wrote a set of Ruby scripts to facilitate ingestion of content. We’ve created an ActiveRecord model for Drupal 4.5 and WordPress 2.0 schemas. The scripts take care of migrating user accounts, content, comments and categories. A set of mod_rewrite directive is also generated to help ensure that permalinks are maintained.

In the hope that it will be useful to the community, we’ve released the sources for the scripts. You can find them on the drupal2wordpress Google Code project

Enjoy.