Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Migrating items from one tracker to another...?

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On 09/03/2011 06:11 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      What I'd really like to do is move the patches and support tracker
>      contents into the bug tracker ...
>      Does anyone have any idea how to do such a thing?  Maybe with some magic
>      Savannah admin script or something?
>
> I have never seen anything like that.  Resolving conflicts and merging
> info from different trackers sounds rather intimidating.
> Paul, if you want to hack on it yourself you can surely have the data,
> of course.
>
>      Or, is there a way to make trackers read-only to the public,
>
> All I know about is the on/off activation, which isn't what you want.
>
> Michael?
>
> Sorry,
> karl

There's no magical way to import them.  The good news is that support, 
bug, and patch items all share a nearly identical schema, so it would be 
possible to write a script to move tracker items.

I'm adding this to my to do list, but there's no real way I'll get 
around to it soon.