On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > We’re still waiting for JIRA to get set up (and yes, we are still waiting for > legal to clear the source code). But in investigating what it will take to > transfer the current JIRA issues to Apache, I found this article [1]. > It talks about username conflicts as being a major pain. To try to reduce > pain and expedite the JIRA transfer, I am seriously considering changing the > authors of all current issues to something like “AdobeFlexSDK”. If I can, I > will take the original author and add it to the comments or a custom field or > something like that. I’m also looking for a field to store the original > Adobe issue number as well. Doing so might then invalidate the way comments > are managed, so I might also take all current comments and concatenate them > into one long comment submitted by AdobeFlexSDK as well. Similarly, the > person who submitted attachments may also become AdobeFlexSDK with no > reference to who submitted it. > > Also, Flex JIRA issues have lots of custom fields that I expect Apache JIRA > won’t have. I don’t know if we’ll be able to get the same fields and we > probably don’t really need most of them. Let me know if you feel like there > is some field other than the obvious (steps to reproduce, date, version) that > needs to be preserved.
Perhaps make these extra fields into comments? Regards, Dave > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/INFRA/merging-jiras.html > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
