Re: Moving Evolution bugs to gnome.

[Luis Villa <louie novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:58 -0600, Gerardo Marin wrote:
> > * bug-buddy can be pretty transparent- we just add evolution to the
> > gnome bug-buddy XML and remove it from b.x.c. Ditto the rest- those are
> > trivial, it's just the input that is hard.
> > 
> > You mention you've got export capabilities at this point; how far can
> > that get us?
> > 
> 
> 1. Filtering Ximian-employee only bugs (the daily backup dump contains
> everything).
> 2. Joining Connector as an Evolution component.
> 3. Bug renumbering at the table level (every bug_id).
> 4. Attachment renumbering.
> 
> 
> Things to do before or during the import:
> 
> 1. Import users who do not have an account on b.g.o (reported_by,
> changed_by and owner fields). This may require some scripting since
> there are users who have an account on both bugzillae so it needs cross
> referencing on users.
> 2. Change the longdescs with the new numbering since there are cross
> references both as a duplicate or likely reports in a textual manner.

There are other things we'd have to do (offhand, we probably need to
make sure that it is complete):

* map b.x.c priority to b.g.o priority and severity
* map b.x.c resolutions to b.g.o resolutions
* copy the URL field into a comment, if it exists

Thoughts on those?

Luis