On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Here at the hackathon in Berlin we are discussing issue trackers, and more
> particular how we should eventually move our issues to ASF infrastructure.
> An old TODO.
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> Ivan just converted the data of the much smaller Serf issuetracker to Jira
> for the Apache Serf project, and he offers to perform the migration for
> Subversion too.
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> I think we really have 3 options:
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> [ ] Keep our issues on Tigris
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> [ ] Migrate our issues to a new Bugzilla instance hosted by ASF infra
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> [ ] Migrate to the standard ASF Jira installation
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> In Jira we can keep our existing issuenumbers, while for Bugzilla we would
> need a separate instance.
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> Personally I would choose the third option if we aim to keep as much
> history as possible (including ascii art and attachments) available after
> the migration. The information in our issue database is just too valuable
> to lose…. Even if it will take a few more years to get there.
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> Bert
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+1 on migration.
I would bias the decision in favor of doing the migration over trying to
solve every problem and letting another year go by.
If Ivan has a working migration for Jira then +1 for that.
I think it is a mistake to get hung up on these other issues that are
trivial in my opinion. Monospace vs proportional -- I do not believe
anyone really cares. Just let the ascii art get messed up. Old links not
working ... not a problem you can solve. Just move on.
I would just migrate the data to Jira, not try to solve all these problems
and move forward. I have seen zero evidence in the years I have been
involved in this project that anyone really cares about the issue tracker.
We go out of our way to actively discourage people from using it. To bog
down on migration over relatively small problems would just be a waste of
time and effort. It sounds like you already will be accomplishing a lot by
keeping issue numbers roughly the same.
Take that victory and get this done.
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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2015-09-15 14:40:43 CEST