On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Gary Martin <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 10/04/14 13:25, Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
Hi !
:)


> has anyone considered migrating the main BH instance at
>> https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound to a multi-product setup, and
>> moving all the BH issues to a product? Doing so would let us create new
>> products there and migrate other projects over to using Bloodhound,
>> without having to create a new BH instance for each.
>>
>> Obviously, I have Subversion in mind here; he move to multi-product
>> would be only a first step, of course, since we'd have to write a tool
>> to migrate the issues off Tigris; but that's a different story.
>>
>> -- Brane
>>
>> BTW, you do know that repository browsing doesn't work there because the
>> SVN repository plugin uses an old version of the SVN libs that don't
>> understand 1.8 format repositories.
>>
>>
>>
> Well, it is certainly a long time overdue, yes.
>
>
Based on my (every day) experience with blood-hound.net there are a few
rough edges that still have to be polished . I'm hoping to be able to work
side-by-side with Ryan during PyCon sprints on some of these (actually
recorded as tickets in i.a.o/bh ) .

With a naive approach to migration, one side effect of this will be a
> change in the base location for all pages associated with bloodhound, from
> /bloodhound to /bloodhound/products/BH (or whatever we chose for the
> bloodhound prefix).


We can do many things including (but not limited to)

1. Run BH instance in i.a.o/bh
    * ... which also means that the global environment has to be moved
somewhere else .
2. Run BH instance as a regular product e.g. i.a.o/bh/products/BH and
redirect to this URL namespace all requests
    that should had been handled by i.a.o/bh
    * ... which also means that the global environment has to be moved
somewhere else .
3. in all cases above the global environment may be  served at a product
sibling URL

I'm assuming that custom web bootstrap handlers will be used (e.g. like
those we are using on blood-hound.net) .

There are likely to be ways around this of course but it would seem odd to
> have such a special status if other projects wish to join us. We need to
> decide how important this aspect of the problem is.
>

IMHO consistency of existing links all over the ML archive (and beyond) is
a strong reason to keep i.a.o/bh as it is . That's exactly what makes BH
especial : it has valuable history . Obviating that detail will lead to a
(potentially) huge amount of dangling references .

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Regards,

Olemis - @olemislc

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