I would Agree with Roland.  If we can manage to pull it off I would be
happy to move to JIRA.

Leaving the old BZ site in place with readonly issues should work as
well.  I don't see too many people modifying old bugs.

Mike

On 3/11/06, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 14:04 +0100, Roland Weber wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't have a problem with a complete move to JIRA.
> > It's just that I read through the xml-cocoon-dev list this
> > morning and realized how much effort that really is.
>
> The trouble is getting _anything_ changed to Bugzlilla involves as much
> work. And on top of that it usually involves begging someone on the
> infrastructure mailing list to finally start paying attention to the
> needs of some obscure and unimportant projects such as HttpClient. I
> have been through this <self-censored> a couple of times. It was not fun
>
> Oleg
>
>
> >
> > >> As far as I know Jira keeps original ids of issue reports imported from
> > >> BZ. So, this should not be a problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow that's pretty cool. So we could really delete the BZ project after
> > > the migration.
> >
> > The xml-cocoon-dev did not delete the BZ project, because there are
> > lots of external links pointing there. In particular, our mailing
> > list archive has plenty of messages with links to bugzilla, which
> > would become useless for the casual user. Advanced users will know
> > how to locate the corresponding bug ini JIRA instead, but casual
> > users sure won't.
> > xml-cocoon-dev did generate an additional comment for each of their
> > issues in bugzilla that would point users to the JIRA version of the
> > issue. And they did that via SQL directly in the database, to avoid
> > flooding their mailing list with spam. But there were still several
> > hundred JIRA mails during the transition, or at least that's what it
> > felt like when I was browsing the list.
> > It is quite an interesting read...
> >
> > "Shall we switch to Jira?"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=112654862112798&w=4
> >
> > "Jira pros and cons" (the link I posted before)
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=112667428311853&w=4
> >
> > "[VOTE] Move to Jira"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=112902740728087&w=4
> >
> > "[VOTE] bugzilla issues cleanup"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=112929316623578&w=4
> >
> > "[JIRA] Migration complete"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=113015139632258&w=4
> >
> > "How much longer for the issue spamming?"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=113024908324197&w=4
> >
> > "Would this show up in BugZilla???"
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=113076686920172&w=4
> >
> >
> > No, I did not read all of these threads completely :-)
> > The later ones are dealing with the migration problems.
> >
> > It's also nice to notice that JIRA generates it's mails partially
> > based on the user's locale. But that might be fixed by now :-)
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&w=4&r=1&s=COCOON-1700&q=t
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=113259856315999&w=4
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> >   Roland
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to