On 15 September 2015 at 14:40, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Here at the hackathon in Berlin we are discussing issue trackers, and more >> particular how we should eventually move our issues to ASF infrastructure. >> An old TODO. >> >> >> >> Ivan just converted the data of the much smaller Serf issuetracker to Jira >> for the Apache Serf project, and he offers to perform the migration for >> Subversion too. >> >> >> >> >> >> I think we really have 3 options: >> >> [ ] Keep our issues on Tigris >> >> [ ] Migrate our issues to a new Bugzilla instance hosted by ASF infra >> >> [ ] Migrate to the standard ASF Jira installation >> >> >> >> In Jira we can keep our existing issuenumbers, while for Bugzilla we would >> need a separate instance. >> >> >> >> Personally I would choose the third option if we aim to keep as much >> history as possible (including ascii art and attachments) available after >> the migration. The information in our issue database is just too valuable to >> lose…. Even if it will take a few more years to get there. >> >> >> >> Bert > > > +1 on migration. > > I would bias the decision in favor of doing the migration over trying to > solve every problem and letting another year go by. > > If Ivan has a working migration for Jira then +1 for that. > > I think it is a mistake to get hung up on these other issues that are > trivial in my opinion. Monospace vs proportional -- I do not believe anyone > really cares. Just let the ascii art get messed up. Old links not working > ... not a problem you can solve. Just move on. > > I would just migrate the data to Jira, not try to solve all these problems > and move forward. I have seen zero evidence in the years I have been > involved in this project that anyone really cares about the issue tracker. > We go out of our way to actively discourage people from using it. To bog > down on migration over relatively small problems would just be a waste of > time and effort. It sounds like you already will be accomplishing a lot by > keeping issue numbers roughly the same. > > Take that victory and get this done. > It seems people generally support idea to move to ASF JIRA. I already have some data converted and want to perform *test* import to ASF JIRA. Just to see how it will like. Should I request ASF INFRA team do this for us or such request supposed to be created by PMC chair?
-- Ivan Zhakov
