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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:52:58 -0500
David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 04/29/2015 02:49 AM, Vlad Glagolev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > As I told earlier, there's a ton of old bugs that are mentioned in:
> > 
> > 1. Sorcery code and comments
> > 2. Grimoire files, including BUILD, DEPENDS and HISTORY
> > 3. ChangeLog files
> > 
> > Not of them were resolved, and sometimes we need to get back to them to
> > understand how things work and why exactly THIS piece of code has been
> > added.
> > 
> > I've decided to resurrect our bugzilla on my powers, but for that I
> > need the most recent database dump for it. David, do you have one?
> 
> I don't know why we need to resurrect old bugs

Because we have nothing, but the bug numbers or at least "see #X" in all
our projects' code. Isn't that obvious?

> , and I'm not sure why the
> git history wouldn't indicate why a specific bit of code was added.
> 
> I don't have a bugzilla database back up any longer. We haven't had a
> bugzilla for about 2 years. I don't know where we would have a bugzilla
> database, I'm afraid.
> 
> It was dropped because of the difficulty of maintenance. It was often
> non-trivial to keep up to date. Switching to a redmine install was far
> easier to keep updated. Back when chiliproject was chosen, redmine was
> stale and stagnant, and the new development happened in chiliproject.
> That has obviously changed.
> 
> > 
> > Large projects like Mozilla and Gentoo still use bugzilla for
> > bug-tracking. They have enough traffic on them, yes. And, moreover some
> > of our development procedures described in the official docs depend on
> > exact bugzilla's approaches. It gives me a thought we still can
> > use bugzilla as our bug-tracker and keep it up-to-date.
> > 
> > But for now I need the dump, at least to resurrect the ancient (but
> > still not resolved!) bugs and see what's to do next. I'm not completely
> > sure migration to Redmine is needed at all.
> 
> Sorry, I don't have a database dump from over two years ago.
> 
> > 
> > --
> > Vlad Glagolev
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Vlad Glagolev