[Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

[Sylvain Henry]

I use it to track tickets and I would also like to see it continued.

Sylvain

On 06/03/2019 12:33, Ara Adkins wrote:
> Personally I would like to see it continued, but it may not be worth the work if I’m in a minority here.
>
> A potential stopgap would be to ‘watch’ the GHC project on our gitlab instance, but I can’t see any way to decide to get emails for notifications rather than having to check in at GitLab all the time.
>
> _ara
>
>> On 6 Mar 2019, at 11:21, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On March 6, 2019 6:11:49 AM EST, Ara Adkins <me at ara.io> wrote:
>>> Super excited for this! Thank you to everyone whose put in so much hard
>>> work to get it done!
>>>
>>> One question: what is happening with the trac tickets mailing list? I
>>> imagine it’ll be going away, but for those of us that use it to keep
>>> track of things is there a recommended alternative?
>>>
>> The ghc-commits list will continue to work.
>>
>> The ghc-tickets list is a good question. I suspect that under gitlab there will be less need for this list but we may still want to continue maintaining it regardless for continuity's sake. Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>> Best,
>>> _ara
>>>
>>>> On 6 Mar 2019, at 01:21, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Over the past few weeks we have been hard at work sorting out the
>>>> last batch of issues in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab import [1]. At this
>>> point I
>>>> believe we have sorted out the issues which are necessary to perform
>>> the
>>>> final migration:
>>>>
>>>> * We are missing only two tickets (#1436 and #2074 which will require
>>> a
>>>>   bit of manual intervention to import due to extremely large
>>>>   description lengths)
>>>>
>>>> * A variety of markup issues have been resolved
>>>>
>>>> * More metadata is now preserved via labels. We may choose to
>>>>   reorganize or eliminate some of these labels in time but it's
>>> easier
>>>>   to remove metadata after import than it is to reintroduce it. The
>>>>   logic which maps Trac metadata to GitLab labels can be found here
>>> [2]
>>>> * We now generate a Wiki table of contents [3] which is significantly
>>>>   more readable than GitLab's default page list. This will be updated
>>>>   by a cron job until underlying GitLab pages list becomes more
>>>>   readable.
>>>>
>>>> * We now generate redirects for Trac ticket and Wiki links (although
>>>>   this isn't visible in the staging instance)
>>>>
>>>> * Milestones are now properly closed when closed in Trac
>>>>
>>>> * Mapping between Trac and GitLab usernames is now a bit more robust
>>>>
>>>> As in previous test imports, we would appreciate it if you could have
>>> a
>>>> look over the import and let us know of any problems your encounter.
>>>>
>>>> If no serious issues are identified with the staging site we plan to
>>>> proceed with the migration this coming weekend. The current migration
>>>> plan is to perform the final import on gitlab.haskell.org on
>>> Saturday, 9
>>>> March 2019.
>>>>
>>>> This will involve both gitlab.haskell.org and ghc.haskell.org being
>>> down
>>>> for likely the entirety of the day Saturday and likely some of Sunday
>>>> (EST time zone). Read-only access will be available to
>>>> gitlab.staging.haskell.org for ticket lookup while the import is
>>>> underway.
>>>>
>>>> After the import we will wait at least a week or so before we begin
>>> the
>>>> process of decommissioning Trac, which will be kept in read-only mode
>>>> for the duration.
>>>>
>>>> Do let me know if the 9 March timing is problematic.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> - Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://gitlab.staging.haskell.org/ghc/ghc
>>>> [2]
>>> https://github.com/bgamari/trac-to-remarkup/blob/master/TicketImport.hs#L227
>>>> [3] https://gitlab.staging.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/index
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