[Numpy-discussion] Issue tracking

[Thouis (Ray) Jones]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones <thouis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Thouis (Ray) Jones <thouis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I plan to import all the Trac issues to github by the end of this
>>> week.  I want to get an up-to-date snapshot of the Trac DB, and run
>>> another test import with it (just to make sure there's nothing in
>>> recent bugs that isn't handled).
>>>
>>> Previous test imports here:
>>> https://github.com/thouis/numpy-trac-migration/issues
>>
>> I successfully imported all the issues from a more recent snapshot to
>> the test repository as @numpy-gitbot, rather than @thouis (to save
>> myself from getting pulled into every bug's discussion).
>>
>> If no one sees any problems with the latest imports (basically, the
>> last 2000 or so by github issue #) , I think it's ready for the real
>> transfer to the numpy github repository.
>
> This is really fabulous; thanks for all the effort you've put in!
>
> But... I am quite concerned that we're still linking to attachments in
> the trac, e.g.:
>   https://github.com/thouis/numpy-trac-migration/issues/6002#issuecomment-9492223
>
> This means that we can't ever take down the trac without breaking all
> our github issues; we're committing to keeping the trac running
> indefinitely. Doesn't that kind of defeat a lot of the point...?

Not actually.  I have a snapshot of the attachments, as well, and once
there's a place for them live (another repository, possibly), we can
use the github API to edit the issues in place to point to the new
URLs.

Ray