Trac to GitLab migration underway

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  > * I have lots of pages like this one
|  > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/proposal/custom-type-errors
|  > that list the tickets relevant to a particular keyword. (Now "label" I
|  > think?) But tat page is now lying: it claims to list current open
|  > tickets, but actually it's a frozen snapshot. What should I do?
|  
|  I can take care of replacing these with links to the appropriate query.

Actually, clicking on a label icon takes you to a page that lists the open and closed issues associated with that label.  That's enough I think. No need to make a custom query.

I have done an example here:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/partial-type-signatures

Simon


|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
|  Sent: 11 March 2019 22:37
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; GHC developers <ghc-
|  devs at haskell.org>
|  Subject: RE: Trac to GitLab migration underway
|  
|  Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
|  
|  > |  I'm happy to announce that the ticket and issue import processes
|  > | are now  complete and gitlab.haskell.org is back online. There are
|  > | still a few  final steps remaining which I will be carrying out over
|  > | the next few
|  > |  days:
|  >
|  > Great!  I'm sure it'll help to have everything in one place.
|  >
|  > Can I ask
|  >
|  > * That the old ticket repo be put in read-only mode. I've just
|  > modified the old #16344, but I should have modified the new one.
|  >
|  Indeed this was supposed to be already done but it looks like I failed to
|  remove a few permissions for developers which allowed further changes.
|  This has been fixed.
|  
|  > * Back on the tickets front, how do I record the test cases(s) for a
|  ticket?
|  >
|  This is unfortunately one of the casualties of the migration. GitLab
|  doesn't have support for custom ticket fields (although they have
|  indicated that they may introduce such support in the future).
|  
|  In the meantime we have a few options:
|  
|   * we introduce a convention to document this in comments
|  
|   * we give up tracking this in the issue tracker
|  
|  > * How do I record the MR for a ticket?  (When it has one.)
|  >
|  Referring to the ticket from the MR description will result in a reference
|  being added to the ticket.
|  
|  > * That the banner (on the wiki at least) saying "This site has been
|  > deprecated and is in read-only mode" should describe how to get to the
|  > corresponding URL on the new wiki. Eg. say "If you are trying to
|  > access https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/<page>, the new URL is
|  > "https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/<page>".
|  >
|  Ultimately the plan is to make Trac URLs directly forward to GitLab's
|  Wiki. The current state of affairs is temporary.
|  
|  > * Where has https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/RichardAndSimon
|  > gone? The corresponding URL on the new wiki doesn't exist.
|  >
|  This is an unfortunate effect of the move to GitLab's wiki, which insists
|  on a different naming convention than Trac (kebab-case instead of
|  CamelCase).
|  
|  
|  > * How can I list the title index on the new wiki?
|  >
|  As Matthew mentioned, there is a table of contents page here [1]. Note
|  that this is quite a hack; ideally we would be able to use GitLab's
|  provided pages list feature [2] but unfortunately it's essentially
|  unusable with a Wiki of non-trivial size. I have reported this upstream
|  [3,4].
|  
|  > * I have lots of pages like this one
|  > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/proposal/custom-type-errors
|  > that list the tickets relevant to a particular keyword. (Now "label" I
|  > think?) But tat page is now lying: it claims to list current open
|  > tickets, but actually it's a frozen snapshot. What should I do?
|  
|  I can take care of replacing these with links to the appropriate query.
|  
|  Cheers,
|  
|  - Ben
|  
|  
|  [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/index
|  [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/pages
|  [3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57751
|  [4] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57179