Transition from Bugzilla to GitLab has begun

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Fantastic work, thank you!

I'ven been trying to get back into improving the infra sooner than later 
and this migration definitely helps pump my motivation up!

Cheers,
Pasi

On 26.5.2020 2.51, Simon Steinbeiss wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> everything but the "big 5" is migrated. So in the coming days we'll 
> try to clean up more bugreports (halp!) for
> - Thunar
> - Power Manager
> - Panel
> - Settings
> - Xfwm4
>
> Then the Bugzilla transition is complete and we will close it down for 
> reporting bugs completely.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:28 AM Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org 
> <mailto:simon at xfce.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     quick status update:
>
>     DONE: www, bindings, thunar-plugins, (97% of) panel-plugins
>     TODO: apps, xfce
>
>     You can see the full status of the migration in a graphical
>     overview here:
>     https://bugzilla.xfce.org/chart.cgi?category=-All-&subcategory=-All-&name=206&label0=All+Open&line0=206&datefrom=&dateto=&action-wrap=Chart+This+List&width=1100&height=550
>
>     Cheers
>     Simon
>
>     PS: If you have received lots of bugmail I'm (not) sorry ;)
>
>     On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 8:53 PM Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org
>     <mailto:simon at xfce.org>> wrote:
>
>         Good news everyone!
>
>         @devs: Please take the chance and go through open bugreports
>         and close the obsolete ones!
>         @contributors: Please help us to clean up, so we only move the
>         actually necessary issues!
>
>         "We" (the royal "we" aka Romain) have kicked off the
>         transition from Bugzilla to GitLab last night! \o/
>         The first components we migrated were xfce4-sample-plugin and
>         all components in www/
>
>         1. We will be migrating components in batches, starting with
>         "less important" smaller ones and moving on to the really big
>         chunks in the "xfce" group (~2000 of the 3000 open bugs).
>         2. We will be switching each component that is migrated to
>         "read only", i.e. *no new bugs can be reported on Bugzilla*.
>         3. A comment will be left behind for all people caring about
>         the open report with a hyperlink to the migrated GitLab issue
>         (Example: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15824)
>         4. As soon as we are completely done with the transition, i.e.
>         all open bugs have been moved, comes the big awesomeness: We
>         will run Andre's tool and have a static version of Bugzilla -
>         so plain html without having to actually keep Bugzilla
>         running. This means all links will continue to work and the
>         full history of the Xfce bug archives will remain available
>         for future search.
>
>         As the transition is semi-manual (someone needs to trigger the
>         script and check if everything went fine) we cannot give you
>         an exact timeline, as it depends on our free time. But we will
>         try to get this over with *as soon as possible*.
>         I will probably continue tonight with Thunar plugins and
>         bindings to familiarize myself with the script in action (I
>         actually did port one component last night, but it's better to
>         practice ;))
>
>         In other news: we have a basic CI setup now for all components
>         in the "xfce" group and for most in the "apps" group.
>
>         Cheers
>         Simon
>
>
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Pasi Lallinaho (knome)         › https://open.knome.fi/
Xubuntu contributor            › https://xubuntu.org/
Xfce contributor               › https://xfce.org/
Shimmer Project co-founder     › https://shimmerproject.org/

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