Re: [RFC] switch to GitLab / gitlab.com

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Very nice. Why is the project/user called lilypond-issues? Do we know who
owns the 'lilypond' user?

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:50 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 07.02.2020, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> > Il giorno ven 7 feb 2020 alle 10:33, Federico Bruni
> > <
> > address@hidden
> > > ha scritto:
> > > I guess that the quality of the issue migration might influence the
> > > decision.
> >
> > I forgot I already investigated the SF -> GitLab migration almost 2
> > years ago:
> >
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Allura-SourceForge-to-Gitlab-migration-td211549.html
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, no progress on the import from Allura:
> > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/21747
> >
> >
> > So a migration script needs to be written.
> > I've uploaded today's dump of SF issues here (165MB):
> > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1llmnlKMt-LyhWHGcbSCSdSSKjsT0mTff
> >
> >
> > in case someone wants to play with it...
>
> Thanks for sharing! I put together a simplistic script to create a
> proof-of-concept: https://gitlab.com/lilypond-issues/lilypond/issues
>
> It's only 1137 issues (now my server is blacklisted for spamming...),
> but it has some important features mentioned so far:
>  * It preserves the issue numbers, and additionally has a link to SF.
>  * It migrates the current description and all comments.
>  * It copies the attachments and adds links / previews.
>  * Status, Type, and Priority are migrated as labels.
>  * The migrated issue is closed when it was closed on SF.
>
> Obviously I can't post in other person's names, so it has "Originally
> reported / posted by" lines at the beginning of every issue and comment
> (unless it had already been migrated from Google Code). Another
> shortcoming is that I could not reproduce the threaded structure on SF,
> so all comments are sorted chronologically.
>
> Please all take a look and let me know what you think!
> Jonas
>


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