Greetings folks,

Since the community, and TSC have agreed that they would like for The
Linux Foundation to start the process for migrating the issue tracking
from Bugzilla to JIRA one of the needed changes we're going to be doing
is transitioning from the current OpenDaylight Identity (ODLID) system
to the more commonly used Linux Foundation Identity (LFID) [0] system
which nearly all of the projects that we support are using.

We need to do this for several reasons, but primarily because federating
the ODL JIRA instance to any of the other project JIRAs requires that
they all be using the same identity backend. Secondarily it's so that LF
can eventually stop maintaining multiple identity systems ;)

So, what does this mean for you? It means the following:

1) If you don't presently have an LFID I encourage you to go make one.

2) Committers will start seeing over the course of the next few weeks
invitations coming from the LFID system to join committer groups. These
groups will be the groups that will eventually power the Gerrit
committer rights permissions, but they will also power more
administrative authority in JIRA in a easier to maintain fashion. We've
granted committers certain rights in Bugzilla upon request, but we
couldn't do it on a group basis before since that is not a capability
that Bugzilla has. JIRA, however does have this ability so committers
will get nearly full authority over their projects in JIRA once the
migration is completed.

3) After JIRA is brought up and we get it configured we will be sending
out further notices related to migration from Bugzilla

4) In the next couple of months there will be notices related to
migration of Gerrit as well. This will be a far more difficult migration
than what we'll see for Bugzilla to JIRA but that migration will see us
move from ODLID to LFID. As much as possible we will try to keep the
issues to a minimum, but transitioning authentication backends with
Gerrit is going to cause problems no matter how much planning we do.

-Andy-

[0] https://identity.linuxfoundation.org

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Andrew J Grimberg
Lead, IT Release Engineering
The Linux Foundation

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