On Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 10:14:26 AM UTC-7 Nils Bruin wrote: > On Saturday, 17 September 2022 at 17:55:10 UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > >> >> The conversion of the Trac tickets to GitHub Issues/PRs only works in one >> shot. Incrementally syncing updates from Trac to existing issues is not >> possible. >> > > Migration *to* GH is one thing, but as has been pointed out, we should > have an exit strategy as well, or at least an idea of a roadmap to move > from github to elsewhere. The code itself is trivial to move: it's a git > repo. However, as has been shown in the past, the discussions (now in > tickets on trac, but if moved in issues and PRs) can sometimes be of > immense value as well. I suppose that if moving from GH to GL is as trivial > as claimed before, GH must have a way of exporting issues and PRs. > > Would someone be able to give an informed assessment or a feasibility > study of extracting issues and PRs from GH? How searchable are they and how > do cross-links survive an extraction (also important for trac-to-GH)? > Presently, trac is fairly searchable due to its own search functions plus > its general indexing by google's search engine. Hopefully we'd have > something at least matching that for GH. > > Perhaps part of our setup should also be that we "backup" this part of our > github setup: githubs own infrastructure is of course excellently resilient > against technological problems but a new failure mode is introduced due to > their governance and policy: in the extremely unlikely event that sagemath > on GH would get "locked" due to a misunderstanding (or malice?) we might > not be at their mercy for extracting our valuable history. >
I agree that it would be valuable to add at least some starting points in this direction. As a beginning, I have created the section: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/migration-from-trac-to-Git**b#retrieving-data-from-github to include the link https://docs.github.com/en/rest to GitHub's REST API, which gives access to everything and is extremely well documented. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/64de5f3b-1b76-42bd-9181-d5cb2cef96b6n%40googlegroups.com.
