On 10.05.2013 15:40, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:07 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> wrote: >>> On 05/09/2013 07:04 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >>>> Can we get a periodic data dump of subversion.tigris.org/issues/ onto >>>> ASF hardware? >>>> >>>> Not because we need to migrate from tigris, but because we need to have >>>> our own backup of our data. (Yes, there is the issues@ history, but, >>>> besides it is not designed for machine parsing, and excludes attachments.) >>>> >>>> I haven't found a way to export the data via the UI. I'm not sure >>>> whether there is no way, or whether my tigris account lacks the "may >>>> export project config and history" bit. >>> As far as I know, there is no export option available via the UI. >>> >>> Moving our tracking off of Tigris and onto ASF hardware has been a >>> longstanding (albeit non-blocking) TODO item since we first began courting >>> the ASF. I think that if we can all agree on a viable ASF-hosted >>> alternative tracker (Bloodhound, bugzilla, or whatever), we should act soon >>> to complete this migration and put this issue (no pun intended) to rest. >> Getting the data is someone that anyone can do fairly easily. I think >> it can even be done anonymously. We created an Eclipse plugin years >> ago that created a Eclipse UI for working with the issue tracker and >> it uses these mechanisms. >> >> I will dig into the code and send an example later today. I know the >> format is XML and I am pretty sure there is a button in the UI to do >> this as well. But if not, it is just sending the right GET request. > OK, here is an easy example. This gets the task data for Issue 4365. > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/xml.cgi?include_attachments=false&id=4365 > > You will see the XML contains the information about the attachments, > so it would be easy to go get them.
That's very nice! I hereby volunteer to get this into Bloodhound ... eventually. I have a number of other commitments, but I will begin investigating. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
