* xor <xor at gmx.li> [2009-10-30 20:21:51]: > On Friday 30 October 2009 16:29:57 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > If we don't keep the bug tracker: > > > - We will need to do a "spring clean": Keep the current bug tracker up for > > a while but read-only, *manually* migrate any important bugs and issues to > > the new tracker. - This will be significant work. > > - It will involve going over the bugs, dumping those which are out of date, > > abandoned etc, and rewriting those bugs and feature issues that are still > > valid. Trac's wiki functionality may be useful for this, although it loses > > the ability to link bugs formally. - It may be a useful exercise in terms > > of prioritising and de-junking. > > > > Migrating it in read-only mode is insane because there would be no sane way > for monitoring the migration progress: Which bugs have been reviewed & > migrated? > > Instead, we should clean up mantis itself until ALL bugs there are suitable > for migration and then migrate. > > Besides, as I've said numerous times, we MUST migrate all bugs because from a > software engineering point of view the content of a bugtracker is the most > valuable data of a project besides the soure code and the documentation. > Deleting any of it without reviewing it is just unprofessional, so we must > make very sure that no issues in mantis get lost. >
HAHAHAHA. At least that made me laugh! > BTW: When did someone do the last backup of it's database? Does emu have a > backup system? There use to be a daily backup... on the local disk from another VM, but as it's full I'm almost sure it's not working anymore... So the remote backups are probably backing up over and over the same useless data. NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091030/6fc2509f/attachment.pgp>
