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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

On 04/29/2015 08:58 AM, Vlad Glagolev wrote:
> 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.

It's in your home directory on fawkes:
root@fawkes:/home/vlad# ls -l
total 303132
-rw------- 1 vlad vlad 143113850 Apr 29 09:05 bugzilla-20120708.xml.bz2
-rw------- 1 vlad vlad 151570714 Apr 29 09:05 bugzilla-mysql-20120708.sql.gz

--
David

>>
>> Sorry, I don't have a database dump from over two years ago.
>>
>>>
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