On 1/21/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, can you tell me how to get dumps of the > bugzilla data and which file formats are available?
There's a dump of the MySQL database on www.freedos.org. You're a webmaster - it's not hard to find. It's under "bugzilla". :-) > There must be a way to convert the data to SF bug > and wish tracker format :-) The guys at SourceForge say there's isn't a way to do it (at least, not now) and they had the ticket open for over a year. SourceForge even pulled in a developer to look at the request. They said they'd need to write a program to do all the cross-mapping of the fields to put it in a format the Trackers would understand. But if you can do a better job than the guys at SourceForge, go ahead. Yet I don't want this to delay our decisions on moving off Bugzilla on www.freedos.org. I waited for over a year for SourceForge to tell me it would be a bigger effort than we first thought. No offense to your l33t skillz, man, but I doubt you can figure it out if they can't. Not without loss of data, anyway. If you think you can create a script to cycle through all our bugzilla bugs and "push" it into the SF Tracker "submit" forms: I thought about it, and I'm not thrilled with that idea. It loses all the date data from the original bug. You could insert the date in the details portion of the bug, but that makes searching by date an impossible task. To do it right, you have to modify the SF Tracker database programmatically with our bugzilla data, and no one but SourceForge has access to the SF Tracker databases. > At least the open bugs... Luckily most bugs have no > too fancy properties and moving added files around by > hand would be okay. Do I understand you right that > you do not want to run a newer bugzilla on SF or > (hint hint) on another page? Did you ask Tassilo? What I need is to reduce the amount of time I spend doing this kind of maintenance stuff on the web site. And working on upgrades & workarounds to the bugzilla system (on www.freedos.org or any other site) is time-consuming maintenance, uninteresting stuff. And as I already said, I need to start planning for my MOT work. So doing bugzilla maintenance has to come off my to-do list. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
