Hello Robinson, *, On Samstag, 9. November 2013 17:59 Robinson Tryon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Thomas Hackert <thack...@nexgo.de> > wrote: >> Though you have given us a detailed proposal, I have still a >> couple of questions, sorry ... :( > > awww, that's okay -- must be comeuppance for all of the questions > I ask all the time :-)
"G" >> 1. What will happen with the existing bugs? Will they stay in >> their current status (like "OPEN", "NEW" and the like)? Or will >> that be changed for some reason? > > To make the move as painless as possible, my suggestion is that we > change as little as possible during the actual migration. Once > we've got the migration step complete (and after a few days of > monitoring), then we can start breaking^H^H^H^H^H ...I mean, > updating and improving the bugtracker. O.K. > If there is something big/intrinsic that we want to change (e.g. > the list of valid bug states), we should discuss if it makes sense > to lump that change in with the migration. My gut feeling is that > it will be safest to make that change separately, but it's best to > have the discussion and evaluate our options. O.K. >> 2. Will the change to our bugzilla instance mean, that all >> reporters, CC'ed persons, etc. will get a mail รก la "Your bug was >> moved to bugs.libreoffice.org" (or something like that)? Or would >> it be possible to mail all registered users beforehand (for LO >> bugs that is ... ;) )? I mean, we have old bugs there, where its >> reporter may have forgotten about it in the meantime. > > In the current proposal there are a couple of different "notify > everyone" steps. In either one of them (probably the one ahead of > time) we could notify all of our bug reporters of the upcoming > migration. I would prefer to get only one mail from bugzilla and not dozens of it ... ;) > Given the large number of bug reporters and the fact that many of > them are not very involved in the LibreOffice community, we'll > want to craft our email interactions carefully so we can have the > best possible interaction. Anything we can do to simplify the > account migration process will help keep us in the good graces of > our userbase. O.K. >> 3. You seem to have forgotten to mention, that we have to search >> the source code / OLH from LO itself and replace all occurences >> there as well. Or am I just too blind ;? A short >> <quote> >> grep "bugs.freedesktop" -R libreoffice |wc -l >> </quote> >> on the source code found 30 hits, and I am not sure, if bfo is >> mentioned in the OLH as well ... :( I only found one in the >> Germanophone help in Pootle that far, but that does not mean >> anything ... ;) > > Ah yes, source code should be on the list. I'll add that now. Thank you very much :) Another one would be the translations repository. A grep for "bugs.freedesktop" reveals 38230 occurences of it there ... :( > Because > 1) We're planning to keep the same bug #s, and > 2) My migration proposal includes some form of redirect (automatic > or notification with link) That sounds good :) > Any old FDO URLs that we miss in the initial migration will still > point (indirectly) at the new LibreOffice Bugzilla URL. So in that > respect, I think we're pretty-well covered. O.K. >> But it will still be a lot of work to change all wiki pages >> (especially the ones related to bug hunting, reporting and the >> like), the qa.libreoffice site, etc. to change them to the new >> address, changing usefull search strings for blo and the like ... >> :( > > There will be a bit of rewrite work necessary in the wiki, > especially for QA, however most of the technical details will > remain the same (partially because of our goal of making no > unnecessary changes during the migration process). O.K. > In the weeks leading up to the planned migration, we can start to > expand the documentation in the wiki (and elsewhere) to mention > both the current system and the future system. That way when the > migration day comes we won't be composing new documentation on the > spot, but can simply remove the old text and any references to > "future migration" and have a quick change-over. I hope so ... ;) >> And changing other documentations, finding other sites, which >> refer to fdo ... :( > > Sure -- I think there will be a little cleanup here and there in > the weeks after the migration, but I think that our redirects will > make that process (mostly) painless for our users. O.K. Thank you for your answer Thomas. -- Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
