Re: [RFC] switch to GitLab / gitlab.com

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Freitag, den 07.02.2020, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Federico Bruni:
>> Il giorno ven 7 feb 2020 alle 10:33, Federico Bruni 
>> <
>> address@hidden
>> > ha scritto:
>> > I guess that the quality of the issue migration might influence the 
>> > decision.
>> 
>> I forgot I already investigated the SF -> GitLab migration almost 2 
>> years ago:
>> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Allura-SourceForge-to-Gitlab-migration-td211549.html
>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately, no progress on the import from Allura:
>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/21747
>> 
>> 
>> So a migration script needs to be written.
>> I've uploaded today's dump of SF issues here (165MB):
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1llmnlKMt-LyhWHGcbSCSdSSKjsT0mTff
>> 
>> 
>> in case someone wants to play with it...
>
> Thanks for sharing! I put together a simplistic script to create a
> proof-of-concept: https://gitlab.com/lilypond-issues/lilypond/issues
>
> It's only 1137 issues (now my server is blacklisted for spamming...),
> but it has some important features mentioned so far:
>  * It preserves the issue numbers, and additionally has a link to SF.
>  * It migrates the current description and all comments.
>  * It copies the attachments and adds links / previews.
>  * Status, Type, and Priority are migrated as labels.
>  * The migrated issue is closed when it was closed on SF.
>
> Obviously I can't post in other person's names, so it has "Originally
> reported / posted by" lines at the beginning of every issue and comment
> (unless it had already been migrated from Google Code). Another
> shortcoming is that I could not reproduce the threaded structure on SF,
> so all comments are sorted chronologically.
>
> Please all take a look and let me know what you think!

For a first pitch certainly impressive.  It's nice that the SHA1 ids
have become live.

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