(anonymous) wrote: > [...]
>> JIRA however is much more complicated. You know from your own >> experience (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-748 has now been >> unresolved for over three years) that few of the Toolserver admins >> have time and knowledge with regard to JIRA, while in the WMF camp >> they have probably zero. So compared with MediaWiki where >> (security) updates will be regularly deployed with the rest of the >> cluster, someone would have to keep a dedicated eye on a totally >> foreign sys- tem. And we only have a free licence from Atlassian >> which could at some point be discontinued. On the other hand the >> benefits are very small as Merlijn wrote the fantastic JIRA/ >> Bugzilla importer which handles almost all cases. > Yes I know those issues... ;) It is/was a pitty... > As far as I know, the JIRA/Bugzilla importer has issues as well, > please confer https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55673. > It does e.g. NOT preserve relations between tickets and thus > drops a serious amount of the history too. As I understand from > the buzilla ticket this will not be resolved. > In my oppinion 1 of the 2 problems should be tackeled; > * either keep a static copy of JIRA (may be just the DB along with > a simple viewer written by us) > * or improve JIRA/Bugzilla importer to a point where it can > migrate relations between tickets and other stuff as well As I wrote last month in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver/6450, you can export an XML dump of your project's issues (you'll have to download attachments manually (or write a script for that)). This contains the links between issues. You can then store it in your software's repository or any other place and convert it to HTML, wiki pages, a book or one of those bubble movies - the world is your oyster. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
