llvm dev - Jul 2020 - RFC: Bugzilla migration plan

> Over time, the bugs alive today will end up with two references, 1234
> and 5678 and it will be confusing which bug you're talking about.
Yes, I agree, this might be a problem, however I'm not 100% sure we
could reset the counter. Still we will see if we could ensure the same
numbering during the migration (e.g just keeping first ~250 bz issues
in the archive and try to continue the numbering in the llvm-project
repo). But at least the redirect would provide the mapping as a last
resort.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Department of Statistical Modelling, Saint Petersburg State University

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:47 AM Anton Korobeynikov via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> > Over time, the bugs alive today will end up with two references, 1234
> > and 5678 and it will be confusing which bug you're talking about.
> Yes, I agree, this might be a problem, however I'm not 100% sure we
> could reset the counter. Still we will see if we could ensure the same
> numbering during the migration (e.g just keeping first ~250 bz issues
> in the archive and try to continue the numbering in the llvm-project
> repo). But at least the redirect would provide the mapping as a last
> resort.
I believe that was the sort of notion proposed (maybe by James Y
Knight?) as one solution in the previous thread - importing so they
line up, and potentially rewriting those first 250 (refiling the
original github ones on top of the imported ones - then rewriting the
original github ones to be the original bugzilla ones - apparently
with some loss of fidelity (pull requests/etc use the same numbering,
so some of those early bugzilla bugs would be end up being written
into pull requests - but they're so old some slightly quirky rendering
seems OK))

(honestly, if it made it /way/ easier - probably having those first
250 remain what they are, and adding a comment or something "hey, if
you're looking for the original bugzilla bug 123, it's over at issue
5047" or whatever - I doubt those couple of hundred bugs are often
looked at, etc)
>
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> (honestly, if it made it /way/ easier - probably having those first
> 250 remain what they are, and adding a comment or something "hey, if
> you're looking for the original bugzilla bug 123, it's over at
issue
> 5047" or whatever - I doubt those couple of hundred bugs are often
> looked at, etc)
Right. We will move to this issue as soon as we have an archive in
place with proper numbering. Then we will see how to proceed with the
final step.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Department of Statistical Modelling, Saint Petersburg State University