Re: Moving the bug system to GNA....

[Fred Kiefer]

First off, I am not against moving the rest of the project over to GNA. 
Basing it on the FSF or the FSF-E is all the same to me. Although I know 
more of the European FSF people in person.
Having the bulk of GNUstep in one place sounds like a nice idea. We 
could go either way. What I didn't like about the original proposal was 
that we would loose all the older bug reports. I know, we don't "loose" 
them, they still would be on Savannah, but for me this is about the 
same. For me the bug tracking system is a very important tool and an 
interface to users. Having the older bug reports (open and closed) in a 
separate system would be an undesirable situation.
Doing a one-to-one move of the SVN repository should be very easy. And 
all that users would need to do is just one rebase per checkout.
I think, about the same would be true when we move the bug reports over. 
But please, don't let these older bug report rot in some unused system.

On 23.05.2011 19:02, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Hey guys... this isn't a direct response to Nicola, I'm just adding a
> few more thoughts here.
>
> Simply put we either need GNUstep to be on either savannah or GNA.
> My concern about moving it back to savannah is that it would be
> disruptive for anyone who has GNUstep currently checked out.
> Additionally, I would argue that if we were to make a move back to
> savannah then a wholesale rethought regarding how the repository is
> currently structured is in order since the way it is now is somewhat
> convoluted.
>
> Later, GC
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Nicola Pero
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > I simply would like to have things in one place.   Right now we're
> > > spread between GNA and Savannah.
> > It sounds like a good idea - I support it.
> >
> > But, I would recommend that:
> >
> >   * we put up extensive announcements on the web site, mailing list, etc.
> >
> >   * we try to migrate over the open bugs.  I had a quick look in Savannah,
> > and you can export
> > all the bugs as an XML blob.  So presumably, you'd export them in that
> > format, then write a short
> > script to import them all into the new one (using wget or curl ?).  Unless
> > GNA allows you to import
> > them in block, or the GNA developers are willing to help. :-)
> >
> >   * if there's nothing left in savannah, it may be worthwhile putting notices
> > there pointing people to the GNA
> > system.
> >
> > Thanks