On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:41 AM, osimons wrote: > > Hi all, > > The project got contacted briefly via IRC by the Bugzilla project, and > they also tried posting to our mailing list but email got rejected. I > got a copy of their post, and just reposting it in full on their > behalf - see below. > > :::simon > > ---------- > > Hello Trac devs, > > Odd Simon Simonsen told me to post this here (I'm not in this mailing- > list, so don't forget to CC me when replying): > > Bugzilla developers had a brief discussion a few days ago about how to > easily export/import bug data from one bug tracking system (Bugzilla, > Trac, Mantis, others?) to another one. Bugzilla can already exchange > bug data with another Bugzilla installation, but is unable to do it > with e.g. Trac. > > The idea would be to agree on a common file format (e.g. XML) which > could be generated by one BTS and be easily understood and parsed by > another one, for insertion into their installation. XML-RPC could be > another way to exchange data. The problem is that Bugzilla developers > have no idea about how Trac works, what kind of data it needs to > import stuff, nor which fields you need to be defined. I guess Trac > developers have the same problem with our own tools. > > Note that I'm talking about copying/moving bug data from one BTS to > another one, not to sync data between both BTS in real time, which is > harder. > > Would Trac developers be interested in such a project, i.e. discuss > and agree on some way to move data from one BTS to another one? Or do > you have no interest in this kind of collaboration?
I think the key would be to develop a common vocabulary for all BTSes. For example, what is called "subject" in Trac could be called title elsewhere. I would be happy to help move this forward. Other than that, I think there would just need to be some agreement on how to encode a "field" and probably some agreements on attachment encoding (I would point at the MIME mail standard). --Noah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
