> On Nov 30, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 30, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> >> On Nov 30, 2014, at 09:54 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote: >> >>> - Migrating "data" from GitHub is easy. There are free-as-in-freedom >>> tools to do it and the only cost is the time it would take to monitor >>> the process >> >> *Extracting* data may be easy, but migrating it is a different story. As the >> Mailman project has seen in trying to migrate from Confluence to Moin, there >> is a ton of very difficult work involved after extracting the data. Parsing >> the data, ensuring that you have all the bits you need, fitting it into the >> new system's schema, working out the edge cases, adapting to semantic >> differences and gaps, ensuring that all the old links are redirected, and so >> on, were all exceedingly difficult[*]. >> >> Even converting between two FLOSS tools is an amazing amount of work. Look >> at >> what Eric Raymond did with reposurgeon to convert from Bazaar to git. > > I fail to see how this is a reasonable argument to make at all since, as you > mentioned, converting between two FLOSS tools can be an amazing amount of > work. > Realistically the amount of work is going to be predicated on whether or not > there is a tool that already handles the conversion for you. Assuming of > course > that the data is available to you at all. > > As a particularly relevant example, switching from Mercurial to Git is as easy > as installing hg-git, creating a bookmark for master that tracks default, and > then pushing to a git repository.
When looking for a tool that did this (specifically Github -> Gitlab because the two are most similar) I found https://gitlab.com/sigmavirus24/issues-migration/blob/master/migrate.py which happens to be written by Ian. I would guess that he is likely speaking from experience about migrating off of Github to go to Gitlab. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
