Flume used a, see here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-3
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Bharath Vissapragada <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks and mentors, > > As a part of Impala's transition to ASF I'm working > <https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3224> on moving the existing > jira infra from cloudera.org to issues.apache.org. As a part of this move, > we need to map the content from existing jira instance to the one in > apache. This requires mapping the user names between these instances. > Recently I've sent out a form > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_pa17Swc1y4nJZvoFJ3Wek10hFbxPenWnWDkBvHS-6P1Cww/viewform?c=0&w=1> > for the users to submit this mapping. I only received responses from ~30 > people so far. > > Running some analysis on the current jira dump, we have the following stats. > > (1) A total of ~750 users > (2) Out of these ~750 users, ~40 users have no kind of activity in the > jira. This activity includes creating/assignees/watching/commenting on the > jiras. > (3) Out of the remaining ~750 users, ~250 people are just watchers for > jiras and do not have any other kind of activity. > > Excluding just watchers, we have ~500 registered users with any kind of > real activity on the jira. Excluding the ~30 users who filled the above > form, we have ~470 people with some kind of activity which will lost in the > transition if no user mapping is provided. Unfortunately this list is too > big to list to do any kind of manual verification and adding the entries > myself after verifying their apache ids. > > Do you have any inputs on what can be done with these un-mapped users? We > have the following options > > (a) Create a dummy user and attribute all the content from these unmapped > users activity to it. > > (b) Create a new jira id for these unmapped users. Lets stay if the user id > is john, we create john_impala (or something similar) by appending a random > string so that we don't map the content incorrectly to a user with similar > name on the apache jira. > > I'm inclined towards (b) as it saves the user activity somewhere and can be > recovered by the users by providing the email id and resetting the password > if they are really interested in it. However it is unclear if they can > export it and import into their existing apache account if required and > hence not really sure if it will be of any use. > > Mentors or committers or fellow devs, do you have any preferences on what > can be done in this case?
