On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:18 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Benson Margulies > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Infra, >> >> For historical reasons, the Maven project has a host of JIRA projects >> at codehaus. This is not an ideal situation for many reasons. >> >> In the past, discussions on moving onto ASF infrastructure have >> founded on the sheer number: dozens. Infrastructure didn't feel that >> they could support that many project, and the Maven project felt that >> it would be very difficult to combine all of the many per-maven-plugin >> JIRA projects into a single project with many components. >> > > Can you tell me why it would be difficult? E.g. I am envisioning a > single maven project, an each plugin has a component instead of a > separate project.
David, I've restored dev@maven to this thread. I suspect that others may be more eloquent than I on this; if no one else joins in, I'll expand tomorrow some time. > >> It seems to me that much has changed since the last time that this >> subject was explored, so I felt that it was worth re-opening the >> discussion. Could the existing main JIRA support a large influx of >> low-activity projects? Or would infra consider a separate instance? >> > > The number of projects is not a huge issue. Jira can support many > magnitudes more 'projects' than we currently have. > > Migrating 61 low-activity projects seems like a lot of work; > historically, that's involved dumping to XML, potentially deploying to > a matching version of the source, and then upgrading the version to > match the destination version of Jira, then exporting again and > deploying to the destination version. Generally (depending on the way > the restore happens) the ticket numbers may not stay the same. > Historically, we've had a lot of frustration on this front when we've > attempted migrations. Though generally they tend to be larger > migrations. > > That said, how much of this work is Maven willing to bear? > > --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
