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]
