On Friday 30 October 2009 19:21:51 xor wrote: > 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 - It will involve going over the bugs, dumping those which are out of date, 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?
Fair point. Devs should have the ability to close bugs after they have been 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. > > BTW: When did someone do the last backup of it's database? Does emu have a > backup system? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091031/2b37bb42/attachment.pgp>
