Qgil added a comment. Thank you @chasemp for the technical explanation. Let me add the social explanation.
Comment metadata is important, and user history is even more important. However, not all comment metadata and not all user history are equally important. A few users have hundreds of comments, while hundreds of users have a few comments. Some Bugzilla users have already an account in Phabricator, while some Bugzilla users can't even even access to their old accounts because the email addresses they used are long gone. Thanks to mutante and aklapper, we have now these interesting numbers: * 525 active Bugzilla users in the past 7 days * 871 active Bugzilla users in the past 30 days * 2606 active Bugzilla users since February (when Bugzila was updated and the last_seen_date feature was available) * 19847 Bugzilla accounts I propose to target those 2606 users (13% of the total) with the two emails proposed above. If only a third of those active users do respond and create a Phabricator account before the migration, we will have covered the amount of regular monthly users. This is a simple technical solution that would solve the most complex part of the social problem. In any case, I believe 99% of those active users will be happy to be officially notified about the migration, and to have a first experience with Phabricator before they find Bugzilla in read-only mode. This together with the periodical updates that Chase mentioned is a fair compromise that basically anybody can understand and agree with. The bottom line is: if you were around, you had a chance to fix this problem before Day 1; if you have been away several months, or it took several weeks for you to respond, then you can also wait a few weeks to have your comment metadata connected to your new Phabricator user account. We have discussed this topic extensively in our last Phabricator team meeting, and the four of us agree with it. It is a fair solution, and there are still many open ends that we need to fix. Let's agree on this approach. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T572 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. To: Qgil Cc: wikibugs-l, chasemp, Aklapper, Qgil, mmodell, Eloquence, faidon, RobLa-WMF, mark, jeremyb _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
