Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-30 Thread Jim Hall
On 1/30/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Aitor, > > > > Since Eric and tassilo have identified the free web hosting for > > > FreeDOS bugzilla, and since Eric has volunteered to install the new > > > FreeDOS bugzilla, migrate the existing data, and do any ongoing > > > maintenance -

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, > > Since Eric and tassilo have identified the free web hosting for > > FreeDOS bugzilla, and since Eric has volunteered to install the new > > FreeDOS bugzilla, migrate the existing data, and do any ongoing > > maintenance - so I think we have a winner! :-) Well as we only migrate fro

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Robert Riebisch
Blair Campbell wrote: > I would rather use bugzilla than the sf.net tracker Why? Please give reasons for your decision. SourceForge bug tracking system is rather slow here, but it works good. It is used by, e.g., the Bochs PC emulator project. I looked at Bugzilla for only a few times and it lo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I would rather use bugzilla than the sf.net tracker On Jan 29, 2008 4:40 PM, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/1/30, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Since Eric and tassilo have identified the free web hosting for > > FreeDOS bugzilla, and since Eric has volunteered to install th

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Aitor Santamaría
2008/1/30, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since Eric and tassilo have identified the free web hosting for > FreeDOS bugzilla, and since Eric has volunteered to install the new > FreeDOS bugzilla, migrate the existing data, and do any ongoing > maintenance - so I think we have a winner! :-) Erm, E

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone! Some followup on the "what to do with the FreeDOS bugzilla" discussion: * 2 people have emailed me to say (paraphrased) "I don't use the FreeDOS bugzilla, but can recommend the SF Tracker if we did that." * 2 others have emailed to say (paraphrased) "I use the FreeDOS bugzilla occasi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Markus H. Maussner
Eric Auer schrieb: > > Hi Jim, > >> >> Since you mentioned tassilo's hosting offer: why did *you* promise >> that *I* would pay for the server hosting? Several times, I asked >> > > > I never did promise that. > what i wrote to jim hall was : <...> bout the p

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > Since you mentioned tassilo's hosting offer: why did *you* promise > that *I* would pay for the server hosting? Several times, I asked I never did promise that. > you to cc me on your conversations with tassilo on this topic, but > you chose to keep me out of the loop. Now I find out

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-28 Thread Jim Hall
On 1/28/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Aitor, > > > If there was an option to dump current bugzilla info to a file or > > something like that, before losing it completely, I'd do it that too > > (in case you guys are thinking of taking bugzilla down some time). > > I already downlo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, > If there was an option to dump current bugzilla info to a file or > something like that, before losing it completely, I'd do it that too > (in case you guys are thinking of taking bugzilla down some time). I already downloaded our bugzilla bug database and converted it from a mysql d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
If there was an option to dump current bugzilla info to a file or something like that, before losing it completely, I'd do it that too (in case you guys are thinking of taking bugzilla down some time). Aitor 2008/1/25, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just wanted to do quick survey to see who

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Tom, > > Do you have a > > stake in the bugzilla discussion that Eric and I are having? Does > > anyone else have a preference for trying to do some kind of conversion > > to the SF Trackers vs. making a clean cutover after a particular date? > > proposing a pragmatic solution: > > leave the ol

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-25 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Just wanted to do quick survey to see who else out there is interested > in the bugzilla conversion topic. I've only heard from Eric. From > looking at who has what bugzilla bugs, I think only Eric and jeremyd > use bugzilla anymore. Mostly it's Eric that has some responses in > there (although n

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Hall
Just wanted to do quick survey to see who else out there is interested in the bugzilla conversion topic. I've only heard from Eric. From looking at who has what bugzilla bugs, I think only Eric and jeremyd use bugzilla anymore. Mostly it's Eric that has some responses in there (although none very r

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla conversion to sourceforge trackers

2008-01-25 Thread Jim Hall
On 1/23/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [LOTS of stuff deleted] I hope that effort wasn't just to put the data into XML, since there is an option to the MySQL dump command that puts the data into well-formed XML. You could have used that. :-) -X, --xml dump a database as w

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-23 Thread Jim Hall
On 1/23/08, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > 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 > > Hmm okay. So we better make a data file which can be imported by SF. > > > To do it right,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > There's a dump of the MySQL database on www.freedos.org... I had guessed / feared that ;-) So now I spent half of the night installing MySQL (because SF uses it) and PosgreSQL (because I use it) and DDL-UTILS (which convert between many databases and XML) on my PC, failing with the lat

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-23 Thread Jim Hall
Just realized that "date tracking" was kind of stupid, since once the bugs go into an archive, they wouldn't be very searchable anyway except via google and whatever textual index we put in front of it. Still... Just dug up some stats to bring to this discussion: 112 open bugs ___ 27 enhancement

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-22 Thread Jim Hall
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 b

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-29 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all, I've moved the FreeDOS Bugzilla to Sourceforge. If you have bookmarked the old Bugzilla, please update to use the new location. I've updated the links on the www.freedos.org web site (mirrors should be updated in the next day.) Please do not report problems with the FreeDOS Bugzill

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone. Things aren't looking so great, and I need to move the FreeDOS Bugzilla. Like, now. I feel I've run out of time. Since #1 (SourceForge) requires the least work, because everything is already set up, I am going to move the FreeDOS Bugzilla to SourceForge over this weekend - pro

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-21 Thread Owen Rudge
That's one of the areas in which things have been difficult - stats. The guy who hosts the www.freedos.org site doesn't believe in stats for some reason, and hasn't been willing to install anything that allows tracking of stats. So I can't tell you about bandwidth on the server. Well, my serv

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Rather than wait for that to happen, Could you give some numbers about that hosting? Disk space, amount of transfered data, sw requirements, and whatever. I would like to study a solution around here... That's one of the areas in which things have been difficult - stats. The guy who ho

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Alain
Hi Jim, Jim Hall escreveu: the person [...] - and lately, VERY difficult. Here at FreeDOS we never had that issue ;-) Rather than wait for that to happen, Could you give some numbers about that hosting? Disk space, amount of transfered data, sw requirements, and whatever. I would like t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Owen Rudge wrote: Hi Jim, Well, just to reiterate my offer from last year, if you need hosting for Bugzilla or anything else, let me know and it can be sorted out. My servers are not going to disappear any time soon. :-) Owen, you so rock. Hmm.. maybe this can become our Option #2, if Owe

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: Hi, all. I have a problem with the web site hosting. Unfortunately, the person who is currently hosting the www.freedos.org web site can be difficult to work with - and lately, VERY difficult. I'm somewhat concerned that if things continue to sour with this guy, he might pre

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-19 Thread Owen Rudge
Hi Jim, Well, just to reiterate my offer from last year, if you need hosting for Bugzilla or anything else, let me know and it can be sorted out. My servers are not going to disappear any time soon. :-) -- Owen Rudge http://www.owenrudge.net/ -