Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 23:29, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Does that mean that no project yet had to deal with the task of
> importing their old bug database?  That sounds very strange to me.
> Maybe someone should ask GitLab developers about this?

The GNOME project migrated from Bugzilla some time ago. The general
scheme of migration was:

* The target GitLab instance has a dedicated “bugzilla-migration” user
account (the “UFO” Dmitry mentioned).
* For each bug in the source Bugzilla instance, a new GitLab issue is
created by the bugzilla-migration user, with a link to the original
Bugzilla bug, a copy of the bug description, and a reference to the
original bug author.
* For each comment to the original bug, a new comment in the migrated
issue is also created by the bugzilla-migration user, with a copy of
the comment and a reference to the comment author.
* The original bug gets a new comment with an explanation of the
migration and a link to the migrated issue. Each user who was
subscribed to the original bug gets a copy of this comment, and can go
register at the target GitLab instance and re-subscribe to the
migrated issue at his/her leisure.

An example of a migrated bug/issue:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766142
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sudoku/issues/25