Request for comments on dry-run Trac -> GitLab migration

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Could we arrange that searching for the ticket number succeeds?
Eg searching for 12088 fails, and 16013.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Ben Gamari
|  Sent: 04 February 2019 16:07
|  To: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>; glasgow-haskell-users-
|  request at haskell.org
|  Subject: Request for comments on dry-run Trac -> GitLab migration
|  
|  TL;DR. Have a look at this [2] test import of GHC's Trac tickets. Tell us
|         what issues you find.
|  
|  
|  Hello everyone,
|  
|  As you likely know, we are currently in the process of consolidating
|  GHC's infrastructure on GitLab [1]. The last step of this process is to
|  migrate our tickets and wiki from Trac.
|  
|  Towards this end I am happy to announce the availability of a test GitLab
|  instance [2] for the community's review. This is a clone of
|  gitlab.haskell.org but with the addition of tickets [3] and GHC wiki [4]
|  content imported from a Trac dump from earlier this month.
|  
|  There are a few known issues:
|  
|   * There are currently around 50 tickets missing from the import; we are
|     working on identifying where they escaped to
|  
|   * The revision history of the Wiki is currently squashed due to
|     performance issues [6] with GitLab's wiki implementation
|  
|  We intend to resolve both of these problems by the time of the final
|  migration. If you find a ticket on the staging instance with problems
|  that are not in the above list please do add the `import problems` label
|  to it so we can have a look.
|  
|  There are a few aesthetic questions that could use community input:
|  
|   * Should the "Trac Metadata" boxes be always visible?
|  
|   * How do we make the Wiki index [7] more usable? Imposing more
|     hierarchy to the page names would likely help but I'm still a bit
|     worried that it will be hard to browse.
|  
|  Please do take a few minutes to peruse the test import and check for
|  mistakes or potential usability issues. GHC's Trac tickets are one of the
|  crown-jewels of the project; we want to make sure we get this migration
|  right as will be living with the result for a long time to come.
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben
|  
|  
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