moving to GNOME bugzilla (was Potential Nautilus categories for GNOME bugzilla)

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 10:19  PM, Jon Allen wrote:

> Here's a list of potential Nautilus-related products/categories
> for bugzilla.gnome.org.  I've left out some Eazel-related
> components (services, etc.) but the majority of
> bugzilla.eazel.com components are in this list.  I'm not
> sure what to do about bugs whose categories will be orphaned
> in this process - maybe a catchall category for these?
> I don't know.

Just a quick note about porting to GNOME bugzilla. At the time we move 
bugs, it's easiest if the products, components, and versions match in both 
bugzillas. So we can do this reorganization in bugzilla.eazel.com before 
we move to bugzilla.gnome.org, or we can do it in bugzilla.gnome.org after 
we move.

I don't think it's a good idea to do it at the time we move the bugs, 
since it will just increase the complexity of the process of moving the 
bugs.

On a related note, I have gotten the XML exporting to work on 
bugzilla.eazel.com, so there are just a few more biggish steps needed to 
get the bugs moved over:

    1) get the products, components, and versions matching in the two 
bugzillas (requires at least creating some on bugzilla.gnome.org, and 
perhaps some reorganization on the bugzilla.eazel.com side)
    2) get a range of bug IDs and attachment IDs reserved on 
bugzilla.gnome.org so we can map bugzilla.eazel.com IDs to bugzilla.gnome.
org IDs in some nice way (and make sure this is technically possible -- I'
ve recently begun to doubt whether it is)
    3) figure out our own file format for moving the attachments, since 
the standard bugzilla XML does not deal with moving attachments, or decide 
that we don't need to move attachments.
    4) test the importing process somehow before doing it
    5) do the import
    6) clean up whatever went wrong

And a few smallish ones:

    1) set up a mapping table to make sure old email addresses get mapped 
to the appropriate ones on bugzilla.gnome.org -- for the most part, this 
is taken care of, but there's a problem with email addresses of category 
owners on bugzilla.eazel.com (they have some old email addresses in them)
    2) figure out what we'll do for owners of categories on bugzilla.gnome.
org -- perhaps we should use a mailing list like the gtk-bugs one for most 
bugs instead of using individuals

If someone is able to take on one of these tasks, please let me know. I'd 
like to get these bugs moved as soon as possible.

    -- Darin