[Ohrrpgce] Importing bugzilla bugs into github

[Ralph Versteegen]

Oh, right! The main reason I wrote that email was to ask about uploading
the bug attachments somewhere. I see there are still various redirects and
remnants of bugzilla left behind.

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 02:47, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that too many labels aren't helpful. Labels are most useful when
> you can't just do a text search (all crash bugs will be easily found with a
> search for "crash"), eg for bug priorities.
> I think maybe I'll combine "cosmetic" and "minor" into a single "minor"
> tag, since we likely want that one anyway while "cosmetic" is too specific.
> Wait, how much difference is there between "minor" and "needs
> improvement"?  Plenty of outright bugs are merely cosmetic. Argh!
> Really, "bug" is a region of the continuum (nearly the whole continuum)
> from feature request to "needs improvement" to blocker.
>
> But... major/high priority bugs is possible the most likely thing of all
> that we would want to categorise and search for. And they aren't
> necessarily going to be put on the todo list for the next release
> (milestone). So I guess I should map major/critical/blocker to "major".
> Although the categorisation of bug severities on bugzilla is pretty
> dubious, it is a useful starting point.
>
> 7d344553-34f0-0310-a9b1-970ce8f1c3a2 is the "Repository UUID" you see
> when running "svn info".
> It's also possible to give git-svn a file with mapping from username to
> actual email, but that won't apply retroactively.
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 02:08, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> Cool!
>>
>> I like the idea of rel: and resolved: prefixes.
>>
>> I vote for eliminating the "bug" tag completely. In general I say err on
>> the side of fewer tags when the specific need for a tag is not obvious.
>>
>> That GitHub contributions trick is cool. I'll try it. Is 7d344553-34f0-0310-a9b1-970ce8f1c3a2
>> the internal ID of our svn repo?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 8:04 AM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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