On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Greetings.
Over the last 3-4 weeks I have been trying to migrate rel-eng from the
old trac to pagure. A number of issues have complicated/thwarted this:
* The pagure side was setup with issues enabled, so we have to keep
those while importing the old ones.
* rel-eng trac is one of the oldest and biggest trac instances we have,
with over 6500 tickets. This meant that importing takes 4-5 hours and
if we hit a bug it all has to be done over.
* I've hit a number of bugs in the importer that have been fixed over
time.
The last bug I hit (last week) is a bit more difficult however:
https://pagure.io/pagure-importer/issue/84
Basically once long ago we had an email to trac gateway. This is where
someone could just email releng(a)fedoraproject.org and it would create a
ticket. Unfortunately, this breaks something that the importer expects:
The reporter: field isn't a username, it's a email address. The only
possible way I can think of to handle this is to try and go into the
trac db and re-write these as usernames. However, there could be tons
of them, we don't know. Also mapping email to username will be very
much manual.
Where these emails ever linked to FAS accounts or do we not know?
On top of that, after the last failed import, I forgot to revert the
tickets git repo. So, new pagure issues have been filed on top of the
old tickets in the repo, meaning their numbers jumped to after the trac
ones, etc.
So, we have several ways forward here:
1. Spam all the still open tickets at the trac instance and tell them
if the issue still exists to please re-file it at pagure. Then after
some time just close the trac instance and move on.
2. Revert the tickets repo again, manually try and fix the trac db to
not have email addresses in reporter (or I guess make pagure-importer
just replace all those with 'nobody' or something). Then re-import.
This means we loose all the tickets filed since (3-4 currently).
3. Some brilliant plan from someone else....
We could keep the json of the new issues added and re-add them after doing 2,
eventually correcting them for their id number.
Pierre