[Ohrrpgce] Importing bugzilla bugs into github

Ralph Versteegen teeemcee at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 05:03:59 PST 2020


On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 01:43, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been putting this off for years (two years since my last attempt in
> fact) but I've finally managed to get bugzilla running locally and import
> the databases so that I can export the buglist as xml and use this script
> <https://gist.github.com/Zimmi48/d923e52f64fe17c72852d9c148bfcdc6#file-bugzilla2github>
> to import it into github.
>
> I'm now in the process of customising the script and the mapping to labels.
>
> Github doesn't have an API that allows attaching files to issue comments,
> so I suggest that we upload all the attachments to a directory on
> hamsterrepublic.com so that we can link to them.
> (Unfortunately I first have to write a script to extract them out of the
> bugzilla DB.)
>
> With all the labels for components, versions, severity, status, etc, we'll
> have a lot of labels. I think it makes sense to organise our labels a bit
> better. All version labels could be prefixed with "rel: ", like "rel:
> alectormancy". And maybe duplicate, wontfix, invalid, worksforme,
> tooconfusing
> could be prefixed with "resolved:" or "closed:"?
>
> I'm going to translate the "feature request", "cosmetic", "blocker"
> severities into labels. I think I'll leave behind "major", "minor",
> "normal" and "critical", and the priority levels. They (if not default
> value) will still be in the bug description.
>
> There isn't really anything that corresponds closely to our gh "bug" and
> "needs improvement" labels. I wonder whether we should just remove the
> "bug" label, since although it's informative and useful in searches, it's
> already a nuisance to accurately tag all the bugs** and we'll get an extra
> 1000 bugs missing it. "bug" is basically the absense of numerous special
> categories like "new feature", "invalid" and "tracking".
>
Or, I could just apply "bug" as a guess according to something like that
simple rule, and we can fix up any mistakes. Will be looking through all
the open imported bugs anyway.


>
> **See
> https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=-label%3Abug+-label%3A%22needs+improvement%22++-label%3A%22new+feature%22
>
> Bugzilla hides people's email addresses (by stripping the domain) by
> default so user names will be something like "David Gowers <00ai99>". I
> think that's fine. I can (am planning to) also replace the username with a
> github @ mention (it shouldn't cause any notifications, because this is the
> mass import API), but the only people who I know the github username of are
> myself, James and Mike. Doesn't matter.
>
>
> BTW, I found that it's possible to make svn commits copied to the git-svn
> mirror on github count towards your "contributions" shown on your github
> profile page. To do so, add a new email address to your github account with
> the form svncommitername at 7d344553-34f0-0310-a9b1-970ce8f1c3a2, where
> svncommitername is e.g. teeemcee or james. The email can be private.
>
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