Planned MAJOR OUTAGE: Thursday 08th of February, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 15 februari 2018 05:08:37 CET schreef John Ralls:
> The thing is that a db dump will be a snapshot, so what we want to do is
> have BZ set up and ready to go on code, then get the Gnome bug team to turn
> off our BZ instance there and send us a dump that we can immediately load
> and then turn on our instance.
> 
> We may want to pre-process the db dump to have sequential numbers. It’s
> something to think about.
> 
> We also need to think about what BZ we’re going to use. Gnome forked BZ
> somewhere around version 3 and have made some modifications to suit their
> needs. We can take that fork and tweak it for our use (just an e.g. it
> wouldn’t make a lot of sense for us to have “Not Gnome” as a reason for
> resolving a bug) or we can get the current Mozilla BZ and use that,
> recognizing that we’ll probably need to tweak the db dump from Gnome to get
> it to load.
> 
> So a modification to my lead: We need two dumps, a preliminary one to test
> with while we get our BZ set up and then a final one that turns off the
> Gnome instance.
> 
> We might want to look at what else is available before settling on BZ. In
> addition to you getting your new house done, Geert, Frank, and I need to
> focus on getting GC3 out the door, so let’s defer further discussion of
> this until later this spring. There are no signs on the Gnome lists that BZ
> is going to be shut down any time soon, so there’s no real rush.
> 
Agreed. By that time Gnome will also have some more hands on experience with 
their gitlab bugtracker, which may bring some additional insights.

GC3 is top priority now.

Geert