Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Thomas Huth]

On 05/11/2020 01.06, John Snow wrote:
> On 10/30/20 6:57 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 10:10, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> This
>>> makes it more appealing to leave existing bugs in the LP tracker until
>>> they are resolved, auto-closed, or there is a compelling reason to move
>>> to gitlab.
>>
>> The compelling reason is that there is no way that I want to
>> have to consult two entirely separate bug tracking systems
>> to see what our reported bugs are. We must have an entry
>> in the new BTS for every 'live' bug, whether it was originally
>> reported to LP or to gitlab.
[...]
> OK. I will try to investigate using the Launchpad API to pull our
> existing information, and then using the Gitlab API to re-create them. 

Before we migrate hundreds of bugs around, I think we should first check
which ones are stale, and which are still valid. So for all bugs that are in
"New" state and older than, let's say 2 years, I think we should add a
message a la:

 The QEMU project is currently considering to move its bug tracking to
another system. For this we need to know which bugs are still valid and
which could be closed already. Thus we are setting all older bugs to
"Incomplete" now. If you still think this bug report here is valid, then
please switch the state back to "New" within the next 60 days, otherwise
this report will be marked as "Expired". Thank you and sorry for the
inconvenience.

Then set the state to "Incomplete" and wait and see how many bugs expire in
60 days.

As a start, we could use the bug list from my QEMU bug dashboard here:

 http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/qemu/bugs-dashboard.html

See the "Expired" tab for the list with old bugs.

 Thomas


PS: I think we should also not migrate the bugs marked with "Wishlist" ...
if people are interested in new features, they should either contribute code
or pay for support, but opening feature requests often simply get ignored
completely, so we should likely rather close them now, too, instead of
migrating them.