I forgot ... I was referring to the following link when asking if something was applicable https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/importing-data-from-bugzilla-802592828.html
On Oct 6, 2016 6:34 AM, "Wade Chandler" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 5, 2016 12:50 PM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Wade Chandler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > ...Something that does seem odd to me about using Jira at ASF, or any > open source, is > > > are we then not locked into whatever happens with the commercial > product?... > > > > That's a risk indeed, but a lot of ASF projects use Jira so if we had > > to change there would be a lot of manpower available for any required > > conversion. The Jira instance is hosted at the ASF so we do own the > > data. > > > > One thing that I forgot to mention is that customizations are not > > available for those services AFAIK, all projects use a shared setup. > > So if the current NetBeans bugzilla uses custom configurations or > > plugins those might not be available here. > > > > Yes directly owning the data as well as a version of Jira certainly makes > it easier. Having an install means you won't suddenly go down on any > corporate shutdown for whatever reason, and having your data, you can > migrate it however you need. Thanks for the sanity check Bertrand. > > I think if we are using Jira we will want to come up with a plan for > migrating issues to Jira from BZ though as we have many open and recently > fixed issues. Too, a lot of folks will be using an older version of the > IDE, find a bug which has long been fixed, and look to see if this is the > case, and if possible to update. That history is project gold :-) > > Maybe we can see if this is applicable. If not all the right pieces, maybe > we can update BZ or MySQL and then do it. Maybe it isn't applicable for > other reasons or the version of Jira. In that case, and if we can't get > around those obstacles with upgrades etc, maybe if the community has access > to both datasets we can get something working (is that possible?). Maybe we > manually bring in all open issues, and we standup, as someone suggested, a > read-only copy of BZ. It is better to have a single source of truth in my > opinion, but if we must we must. > > Thanks > > Wade >
