[OH-Dev] Issue Management Migration to GitHub Issues

[Louis Goessling]

I'm glad that code finally got some use. Apologies that I was out of town,
and I hope everything went well. Best of luck guys, and hopefully some time
soon I should be able to find some time to look into said issues.


*>> *Louis Goessling
*Software Development, omgtransit.com <http://omgtransit.com/>*
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> Well, everyone, I have mass-imported our issues.
>
> Huge thanks to Louis who put together the code that made this possible. I
> made some minor tweaks to the code, and you can find it (and my frantic
> commit log messages) here: https://github.com/paulproteus/oh-issuemover .
> Louis, you're welcome to merge any of my changes, if you want them!
>
> Here are some things I have done:
>
> * Imported all the bugs into GitHub issues (which may have caused about *30,000
> emails to be sent*, received by about 25 people, sorry about that).
>
> * Added redirects so http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue1000 redirects to
> https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/issues/1315
>
> * Archived the old Roundup data at e.g.
> roundup-archive.openhatch.org/bugs/issue1000
>
> * Switched off Roundup, on linode.openhatch.org.
>
> * Published the archived data at
> https://github.com/openhatch/oh-roundup-archive/
>
> The archived data is the result of me using "wget" a bunch to download
> "issue" data (rather than storing the original database), plus copying all
> the "files" directly from the Roundup instance.
>
> The original Roundup database is not deleted. It will hang around in MySQL
> for a while, I guess.
>
> I think that's all I can think to say. Welcome to this crazy new world.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Asheesh,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07.08.2014 08:30, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>>
>>>  Huge props for Louis for doing all the research on this over PyCon. I
>>> found the scripts he was using, and made and tested them out, and made a
>>> few changes, and here is my latest test import:
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/imported-from-roundup/test/issues
>>>
>>> One known issue: I link to a domain I haven't set up yet,
>>> http://roundup-archive.openhatch.org/ , which is where I'll keep the
>>> files and /bugs/ URLs after I take a snapshot of them (and then I'll turn
>>> off Roundup!).
>>>
>>>
>>>  One other thing I plan to do is to redirect requests to
>>> openhatch.org/bugs/issueXYZ to
>>> github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/issuesXYZ .
>>>
>>>  Any feedback on this format, before I do the real import to
>>> oh-mainline's issue tracker? If there are no blockers, I'm tempted to do
>>> that tomorrow, and then it'll be all done.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is a show-stopper for the migration, but I just
>>> looked through the imported bugs at GitHub and see that all their "latest
>>> modification time" is squashed to the runtime of the conversion scripts.
>>> This is probably expected, but maybe there is a way to tweak the "add
>>> time", such that you don't lose part of your (time) history.
>>> I sometimes find it useful to be able to see "Oh, that's a bug from long
>>> ago with no recent action. I'll have a look at it."
>>>
>>
>> Hi Dirk! Thanks for the response! It's always great to know someone else
>> is interested.
>>
>> From what I can tell, the Github Issues API doesn't let us specify a last
>> modified timestamp:
>> https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/#create-an-issue
>>
>> But we do have some text on the bug that indicates last modified date.
>> See https://github.com/imported-from-roundup/test/issues/991 and
>> https://github.com/imported-from-roundup/test/issues/1026 to see that.
>>
>> If you have an idea for how to better-display that "Last modified" date
>> imported from Roundup, I'd love to hear.
>>
>> Either way, thank you again for the response!
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
>>
>
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