Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> From the migration plan in the wiki:
>
>     "Our contention is that copying/moving every existing GNOME issue 
> to
>     a new issue tracker is impractical and, in many situations,
>     undesirable."
>
> May you expand in which many situations is undesirable?

I have tickets in Shotwell that have migrated three times now. From Trac 
to
Redmine to bgo. Most of them are unreadable, are missing attachments or 
other
viable information.

Also, all references to older tickets in code are hard or even 
impossible to
find.

So in my opinion, either all information has to be transferred properly,
INCLUDING a possibility to find the old bgo number, or better nothing.

But I would be perfectly happy with a r/o bgo instance for reference.