Bugzilla Upgrade breakage

[Mike McGrath]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> The bugzilla upgrade planned for this Friday will break the FAS =>
> Bugzilla sync.  The problem is that the current method of syncing is:
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> 1) cron job fires
> 2) everyone is removed from the bugzilla fedora_contrib group.
> 3) everyone in fedorabugs is added to the fedora_contrib group
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> In the migrated system, we are not going to be able to do step #2
> (because we will no longer have access to the db and there's no xmlrpc
> call to do it.)
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> I'm planning on introducing this kludge to make things work:
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> 1) user is removed from fedorabugs.
> 2) user is added to a new FAS table with a remove flag: bugzilla_queue
> 3) user is added to fedorabugs
> 4) user is added to bugzilla_queue with an add flag
> 5) cron job fires
> 6) user in bugzilla_queue are added or removed from fedora_contrib
> according to the flag.
> 7) user is removed from bugzilla_queue
> 8) repeat from #6 until no more users in queue.
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> Unless someone can come up with a better method, I'll be implementing
> this today.

Is there a way to simplify this if we work with the bugzilla people?  
Would they even be willing? 

    -Mike