XML file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhnonjo9p09krws/FlexSDKENTDMV.zip Attachments: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0b2h93rbjqwcdz/FlexAttachments.zip
The XML file format is not well documented, but I eventually figured it out. Tags reference other tags and eventually map the file name to the attachment number which is in a folder name that is the same as the issue number. Good luck and thanks for looking into it, -Alex On 3/24/14 9:44 AM, "Marcus Fritze" <marcus.fri...@googlemail.com> wrote: >Thanks for the explanation. > >Is it possible to download the 7GB and the XML to search manually? >And maybe - if it's not to complicated - to write that utility. > >Thanks > >Marcus > >Am 24.03.2014 um 17:18 schrieb Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com>: > >> Essentially, every attachment is missing. When Infra did the import of >> the Flex issues, they had the attachments, but assumed that they could >>add >> the attachments after import (which worked in prior versions of JIRA) >>and >> then found out that wasn't true in the current version. >> >> There is about 7GB of attachments and Infra does not want us to use REST >> or SOAP to re-insert the attachments because that's a lot of data and >> because there is no way to recover if we get it wrong. Flex JIRA issues >> are in the same database as all of the other Apache projects and >>shutting >> them down to recover the Flex JIRA is not desirable. >> >> The plan is that someday, I (or someone) will find time to write a >>utility >> that renames the attachments to their proper names (JIRA just stores >>them >> as "1", "2", "3", etc, no suffixes or other hints as to the content, the >> name is determined from an XML file), and then Apache will post those >> files somewhere. >> >> Given that in two years we've only been asked for less than 10 >> attachments, it is low on my list of priorities. >> >> -Alex >> >> On 3/24/14 3:16 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: >> >>> When migrating the Flexmojos Issues from Sonatype to the new Atlassian >>> Jira, I wrote a Manual Migration tool that also transfered attachments >>> using the REST api >>> If there is some stuff missing, we could code a similar tool to >>>Transfer >>> missing attachments. >>> >>> Chris >>> ________________________________________ >>> Von: Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> >>> Gesendet: Freitag, 21. März 2014 13:39 >>> An: dev@flex.apache.org >>> Betreff: Re: How to get the attachments of old Adobe JIRA / imported >>> Apache JIRA? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just post the issue number(s) and Alex should be able to find it for >>>you. >>> >>> Justin >>> >>> On 21 Mar 2014, at 9:21 pm, Marcus Fritze >>><marcus.fri...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> unfortunately the attachments to the issues are still not accessible >>>>in >>>> the JIRA. >>>> >>>> Is there a easy way to get attachments of some (3-5) issues? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Marcus >>> >> >
