[Libreoffice-qa] Bugzilla Migration Plan

[Jochen]

Hi Robinson,

my thoughts are

1) wow - great idea and good plan/implementation

Then
2) What benefits?
3) Never change a running system

Regards

Jochen


Am 12.08.2013 19:54, schrieb Robinson Tryon:
> Hi All,
>
> We've been talking recently about migrating our bugtracker to our own
> server. There are a number of benefits to such a migration, but we've
> often glossed-over some of the details of how to effect such a move.
>
> Florian R. and I stuck our heads together and came up with some good
> ideas on how to make this happen. Here's our current draft:
>
> 1) Ping our users:
>
> - Ask our FDO users for permission to include their accounts/data in
> the new install (this could be as simple as a mass-email asking for
> them to reply back to us, or a small Bugzilla plugin where users can
> check a box "Please copy my account to LibreBugzilla...")
>
>
> 2) Prep
>
> - Clone the LibreOffice project into a separate bugzilla instance
> (still run by FDO)
>
> - Use bugs.libreoffice.org as the url for this new instance of bugzilla
>
> - Add a default license/ToS for all users/new bugs (I suggest CC-BY-SA
> 3.0 for consistency)
>
> - Document and prepare to transition all LibreOffice infrastructure
> that interfaces with FDO (e.g. Gerrit, Ask, MediaWiki, IZBot, etc..)
>
> - Design a redirect system so that LO bug urls on FDO redirect to the
> new bugs.libreoffice.org (either with mod_redirect, a custom patch to
> Bugzilla, or etc..)
>
> - Change all non-migrated account emails to
> "fdo-user_<username-at-fdo>+nomail at libreoffice.org.
>
>
> 3) Migration Day
>
> - Lock-down the LibreOffice project in FDO so that no new changes can
> be made to LO bugs
>
> - Copy-over the bugzilla database to the new instance, and make it live
>
>
> 4) Continue to migrate accounts
>
> - For the next few months, respond to user-inquiries about migrating
> their user accounts from FDO to the new Bugzilla instance. If we left
> passwords, etc.. in place, this could be as simple as telling the user
> to log-in with the new username/email address, and have them change
> the username back to its original value.
>
>
> 5) Complete the transfer
>
> - After a few months, the FDO admins can delete user
> credentials/log-in information for any accounts that have not opted-in
> to the new system
>
> - The server instance may be handed over to the TDF sysadmins at any time
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> -- R
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