Re: Google Code shutting down

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Further to this, I had a very helpful interchange today with one of
> the other users at SourceForge who responded to my ticket.  He
> suggested exporting the text part of the DB as a JSON file, changing
> all the occurrences of "author": "*anonymous" to "author":
> "tdanielsmusic", and re-importing the file.  I tried this.  It works
> and fixes the exposure problem.  I've now created a new account
> "googleimporter" and am in the process of changing the author to that
> in all the imported tickets so my account remains separate.
>
> However, this has exposed another difficulty.  Importing DBs is a
> bottleneck.  I managed to import part of the first file I modified,
> enough to check it fixes the problem, but importing the main DB with
> 4000-odd issues has so far failed due to congestion.  The file uploads
> but is then rejected with "Too many pending imports.  Please try
> later."  This suggests we should aim to start the migration proper
> early rather than later.

Should I ask at Savannah how they view the prospect of running Allura?
Are there obvious selling points over Savane?  Like that there is an API
for manipulating issues?

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David Kastrup