> -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Margulies > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 21:52 > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:18 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Benson Margulies > > <bimargul...@gmail.com> 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
I have some spare cycles right now to tackle this. -Jason -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
