Re: User account for migrating Bugzilla issues to GitLab

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Thanks, Philip: this is much appreciated.

Since Alberto won't likely have time to work on this for a while, and
since this code should live in GNOME's own GitLab instance, how about
we create a new repository there?

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

On 13 November 2017 at 00:14,  <philip chimento gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent the weekend hacking on Alberto's Bugzilla-to-GitLab migration
> script and I've made some nice improvements in the readability/friendliness
> of the automatically generated issues, in my opinion. With everything in
> this merge request [1] I've got it in a state where I'm happy to start
> migrating issues for GJS from Bugzilla to GitLab.
>
> I also have a couple of GJS-specific changes which are here [2] in case
> anyone else is interested in copying them.
>
> One thing I'd like to check before I do that is whether it would be possible
> to do the migration logged in as a "bugzilla-migration" user on GitLab, for
> which I've opened an issue [3]. It would be a nice bonus to not have myself
> auto-subscribed to every issue that is migrated :-) It seems like it should
> be possible for a GitLab admin to create this account and, for example, give
> out a time-limited access token to a maintainer who wanted to run the
> migration script.
>
> If the bugzilla-migration user had admin permissions, it looks like the
> script could even post comments as the user who originally made the comment
> on Bugzilla, if that GitLab user exists. (On the other hand, it seems risky
> to hand out access tokens, even time-limited ones, to an admin account.)
>
> Any GitLab gurus have thoughts on this?
>
> Here are some examples of what the tool's output now looks like, on the
> GitLab test instance:
> - https://gitlab-test.gnome.org/ptomato/gjs-test/issues/75
> - https://gitlab-test.gnome.org/ptomato/gjs-test/issues/77
> - https://gitlab-test.gnome.org/ptomato/gjs-test/issues/70
> The full list is here [4].
>
> Regards,
> Philip C
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/aruiz/gitlab-gnome-tools/merge_requests/9
> [2] https://gitlab.com/ptomato/gitlab-gnome-tools/compare/master...gjs
> [3] https://gitlab.com/aruiz/gitlab-gnome-tools/issues/20
> [4] https://gitlab-test.gnome.org/ptomato/gjs-test/issues?state=opened
>
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