I gather that all bugs from sourceforge have now been migrated to MediaZilla. However, sourceforge stores feature requests in a seperate "RFE" tracker, and these *haven't* been migrated.
I presume the reason for this is that there are many more unnecessary/out-dated RFEs than there were unnecessary/out-dated bugs. But since few people have the rights to do more than add a comment to them on sourceforge, this will never change (they won't be closed); and meanwhile, existing discussions are unavailable to be searched on the new DB. Searching both, and then importing by hand to cross-reference, is laborious to say the least.
I therefore suggest/request that whoever ran the bot to import the bugs (Timwi, was it?) do so for the RFEs - perhaps labelling them with a keyword such as "sf-import". Someone can then look through these (yes, I'm volunteering) and make sure they are labelled appropriately, close any that are out-dated or invalid anyway, etc.
(This message was occasioned by my desire to mark http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378 as a duplicate of http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=594421&grou... - if you see what I mean)
On Oct 2, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Rowan Collins wrote:
I therefore suggest/request that whoever ran the bot to import the bugs (Timwi, was it?) do so for the RFEs - perhaps labelling them with a keyword such as "sf-import". Someone can then look through these (yes, I'm volunteering) and make sure they are labelled appropriately, close any that are out-dated or invalid anyway, etc.
As an alternative, if I give you permission bits on the sourceforge RFE tracker, would you be willing to go through them there and only move the relevant ones?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:03:44 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Oct 2, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Rowan Collins wrote:
I therefore suggest/request that whoever ran the bot to import the bugs (Timwi, was it?) do so for the RFEs - perhaps labelling them with a keyword such as "sf-import". Someone can then look through these (yes, I'm volunteering) and make sure they are labelled appropriately, close any that are out-dated or invalid anyway, etc.
As an alternative, if I give you permission bits on the sourceforge RFE tracker, would you be willing to go through them there and only move the relevant ones?
The disadvantage is that for those that *do* need importing, the bot does [that is, seems to have done with the bugs] a better job than I would manually: reversing the order of the sourceforge comments so that they are oldest-first, for instance.
However, I could go through and close some on sf anyway, so that we wouldn't have to import all 403 currently open. If you'd prefer it this way round, grant some permissions to sf-user 'imsop', and I'll have a look for obvious candidates for closure tomorrow.
Rowan Collins wrote:
The disadvantage is that for those that *do* need importing, the bot does [that is, seems to have done with the bugs] a better job than I would manually: reversing the order of the sourceforge comments so that they are oldest-first, for instance.
However, I could go through and close some on sf anyway, so that we wouldn't have to import all 403 currently open. If you'd prefer it this way round, grant some permissions to sf-user 'imsop', and I'll have a look for obvious candidates for closure tomorrow.
Just send me an e-mail when you've finished closing those that shouldn't be migrated, and then I'll run the script again to migrate those that are still open.
Thanks for volunteering to sift through them!
(And sorry for forgetting about the RFEs ;-) )
Greetings, Timwi
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:28:48 +0200, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Just send me an e-mail when you've finished closing those that shouldn't be migrated, and then I'll run the script again to migrate those that are still open.
Well, as far as I can see I still have no "permission bits" on sourceforge, but if someone would set those for me, I'll have a go. There are about 75 RFEs which were opened during 2002 which would probably make a good place to start... :D
Thanks for volunteering to sift through them!
Let's just hope most of the decisions are pretty obvious, else I may regret offering (serves me right for sending e-mails in the middle of the night :/ )
On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Rowan Collins wrote:
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:28:48 +0200, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Just send me an e-mail when you've finished closing those that shouldn't be migrated, and then I'll run the script again to migrate those that are still open.
Well, as far as I can see I still have no "permission bits" on sourceforge, but if someone would set those for me, I'll have a go. There are about 75 RFEs which were opened during 2002 which would probably make a good place to start... :D
(tweak, tweak) Try it now...
Thanks for volunteering to sift through them!
Let's just hope most of the decisions are pretty obvious, else I may regret offering (serves me right for sending e-mails in the middle of the night :/ )
Bwahaahaa! :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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