Okay, so the public API can't do this. That explains why I couldn't see how to do it.
I'll pass this on. Thanks David and Dima. On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 20:32, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The migration has to be performed by GitHub staff (or at least it was > the case 1.5 years ago). > You'll want to get in touch with https://github.com/abbycabs who's > leading these sort tasks at GitHub. > > So you'd need to write an exporter (that's the repo David links), and > debug it, before handing over to them, on a (trial) instance of GitHub > Enterprise server (you can install it for free and use for a month or > so - you'd need a Linux server to run it on). > > HTH, > Dima > > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > There have been some discussions and tentative attempts to migrate > > Maxima from SourceForge to GitHub e.g.: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/message/58794267/ > > > > I'm wondering how Sage managed to migrate issues from trac to GitHub > > while still preserving things like who is the author of a comment or > > the timestamp of the comment etc. I don't see how in GitHub's API you > > can set those things. > > > > For example this issue was migrated: > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/33458 > > > > Somehow it shows my GitHub account opening the issue along with the > > GitHub handles for other people who commented and the timestamps are I > > assume those that were pulled from trac. I can't see how to make that > > happen with Github migration scripts that I have seen or from the REST > > API docs. > > > > If anyone has any tips for a good way to do this then I am sure that > > the Maxima developers would appreciate it. > > > > -- > > Oscar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAHVvXxSs4gKgD_dPTkyNm6CiM7exMdoLBaA26m1G9N2f3%2BipxA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAHVvXxSvJ%3DHzAqA7B-eaMgmwtHxj%3DdHY8zebzkenNT4PE_gApA%40mail.gmail.com.
