Dave, I agree with you that having as much history as possible would be the preferred model. With that, +1 on option 3.
d. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Dave Brondsema <d...@brondsema.net> wrote: > We should move our tickets from https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/to > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/ There's a lot of tickets > there, and > the hardest part I think is that its a mix of Allura tickets and non-OSS > SourceForge tickets too. (Lately we've been making non-Allura tickets > private, > and also using different milestones, but that's not 100% true for all the > tickets on SF). > > I want to propose a few options for how we want to handle the Allura > tickets and > then after that, SourceForge can figure out how to adapt some of its other > needs > for internal tickets, related tickets, scheduling, etc. > > 1) Clean start; don't move any tickets. Easy, but a lot of context and > history > will be left on SF. Also there are many open tickets that would have to be > re-created. > > 2) Move open Allura tickets, preserving ticket #s (or, possibly, giving > them new > numbers starting at 1). This would leave behind closed tickets that aren't > "current" any more. We would have to sort out what open tickets are > "allura" > tickets and which are not. > > 3) Move all Allura tickets. We would have all of the project history in > one > place. But it would take even more time to sort through all the tickets to > determine what is "allura" and should be moved, and what should not. > > I prefer option 3. It's more work but will be very helpful to have all > tickets > in one place. I have pretty good knowledge of all the tickets and can be > the > one to sort out which to move and which to keep on SF. > > As far as the technical work to do a move, we can export all the data > using the > APIs. And we can write an import utility which handles the Allura > api/export > format (which would be good to do anyway). Many usernames wouldn't match > up, > and would have to be changed to "anonymous" or create a stub user in > Allura (my > preference). Cross-references (to wiki pages, chat logs, SF site-support > tickets, etc) would break. > > How does that sound? Any other suggestions? > > > -- > Dave Brondsema : d...@brondsema.net > http://www.brondsema.net : personal > http://www.splike.com : programming > <>< > -- *Daniel Hinojosa* *Community Manager, SourceForge / Slashdot Media* p: 415.890.3608 e: d...@slashdotmedia.com facebook: facebook.com/d.Slashdotmedia skype: hinojosad
