Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 09:23, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> My convincing strategy is "do nothing" :-)

I am, er, not convinced :-)

> Most importantly we need to be able to make the existing "QEMU" component
> in launch read-only to prevent people filing new bugs there, ideally with
> a change in the description to point people to the new bug tracker.
>
> We can leave existing bugs in LP to continue their discussion. If there
> are some we explicitly want in gitlab manually re-file them. Aside from
> that if we periodically auto-close any stale bugs, after a while we'll
> have culled launchpad down to zero.

Minimally, we should have an easy way to refile specific bugs
that doesn't involve manual cut-n-paste. Most of the Arm bugs
in launchpad are valid, for instance, I think, and I really
don't want to be spending a day in unnecessary clerical work
copying information into gitlab...

thanks
-- PMM