On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:48 AM Nicolas Dufresne <nico...@ndufresne.ca>
wrote:

> Le mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 14:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 04:21 +0000, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > This is about the migration tool for Bugzilla bug reports to GitLab
> > > issues. See, for background, issues [1] and [2]. Currently, the
> > > migration tool posts all the migrated issues and their associated
> > > comments as one single user; either the maintainer who runs the
> > > script, or a special 'bugzilla-migration' user.
> >
> > At the very least, I'd expect people who were on CC: for the Bugzilla
> > bugs to also be CC:ed on the GitLab issues.
> >
> > I'm currently on the CC: list for more than 2000 bugs in Bugzilla. That
> > doesn't cover modules for which I'm a co-maintainer and would have
> > received automated -ma...@gnome.bugs emails. I would hate to have to
> > resubscribe to every one of those by hand.
> >
> > I already found the 20-odd bugs I was CC:ed on in gnome-calendar a pain
> > to resubscribe to, so you can imagine with 2k bugs.
> >
> > Also, my GNOME.org gitlab registered e-mail address isn't the same as
> > my bugzilla mail address. It's another problem you might run into with
> > the migration script.
>
> To be checked in the script, but you have to make sure your bugzilla
> email is listed in gitlab (it supports multiple email). After migration
> there will be no issue removing old emails. You can also change your
> email in bugzilla too if you want, that works these days.
>

Indeed, I'm not planning to support an outside mapping of emails other than
what is in GitLab — good catch that GitLab accounts can have more than one
email address. I'll need to check that the script will behave properly in
that case.

Bastien, do you also mean to imply that the wish to be subscribed to >2000
issues means that receiving >2000 mails won't be a problem?

Regards,
Philip C
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