Hi, Vladimir, Do you have examples of successful transition from Bugzilla to GitHub issues for Apache projects? (already completed ones)
Best regards, Sergey Чт, 18 авг. 2022 г. в 08:11, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected] >: > Hi, > > Have you considered migrating from Bugzilla to GitHub Issues? > > I think co-locating issues, code, and PRs at GitHub would make it easier to > browse both issues and code. > > I guess many POI users browse code (including POI code) in GitHub, > and they would likely use GitHub PRs (POI PRs and PRs for the other > projects). > > It is inconvenient to require Bugzilla login for the sole purpose of filing > an issue. > > It is inconvenient that search over bugs is disconnected from search over > code. > > If bugs are migrated to GitHub, then a single GitHub search would work for > everything: code, issues, PRs > > GitHub allows richer comment formatting (e.g. code highlight). > > GitHub shows code preview when you mention link to code in an issue > comment. > > Moving issues to GitHub would unlock cross-references between projects > (e.g. users could mention Tomcat issues) > > so others can see which projects reference the same issue, and sometimes > you could peek into the workarounds. > > I'm working on migrating Apache JMeter (Bugzilla -> GitHub Issues), see > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/xmccss17s6sm8wzcm56d7sr6py663s7w , > > and I have a migration script https://github.com/vlsi/bugzilla2github > > It preserves bugs, comments, attachments, and links between bugs. > > Here's a recent dry-run for JMeter: > https://github.com/vlsi/tmp-jmeter-issues > > For reference, the first bug in JMeter was filed on 2003, and we look > forward to migrating all the ~5K bugs to GitHub issues. > > LLVM moved from Bugzilla to GitHub a year ago (50K bugs since 2003) > > WDYT? > > Vladimir > -- Sergey Vladimirov
