[GNC] [GNC-dev] ANNOUNCE: Bugzilla is moving

[Derek Atkins]

We should add that these preferences will not get copied over, so after the 
move you will continue to receive email from the new bz instance.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On June 28, 2018 7:04:26 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> I should have mentioned that this will result in a ton of bug-change emails 
> going out. If you want to avoid getting those emails (and lighten the load 
> a bit on Gnome's server), please visit https://bugzilla.gnome.org, log in, 
> click "Preferences" at the top of the page, select the email tag, and 
> uncheck all boxes on the following two lines:
> * "The priority, status, severity, or milestone changes"
> * "New comments are added"
>
> You'll also want to remove any gnucash-related date addresses.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>> On Jun 28, 2018, at 1:36 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> As anyone who's used Bugzilla in the last few months already knows, Gnome 
>> has moved their git repositories to a Gitlab instance at gitlab.gnome.org 
>> and migrated bug tracking for Gnome projects there as well. They've left 
>> Bugzilla alone for non-Gnome projects like GnuCash but they're closing it 
>> to new bugs on Sunday, 1 July.
>>
>> Most users and contributors know that to get ready we've set up a new 
>> Bugzilla instance at https://bugs.gnucash.org and copied all of the bugs 
>> and their history and all user accounts. We'll do a final fetch from 
>> bugzilla.gnome.org at 2018-06-29 22:00:00 UTC (That's tomorrow at 8PM 
>> UTC/10PM European Daylight Time/4PM US Eastern Daylight Time). We expect to 
>> be able to "turn on" https://bugs.gnucash.org within a couple of hours.
>>
>> The process will be:
>> * Close bug creation on bugzilla.gnome.org. Unfortunately we can't prevent 
>> updating already-created bugs, but any changes to bugs on 
>> bugzilla.gnome.org after this will probably be lost.
>> * Fetch the latest bug status from bugzilla.gnome.org
>> * Close all open bugs on bugzilla.gnome.org as "RESOLVED OBSOLETE" with a 
>> comment pointing to https://bugs.gnucash.org for further discussion. We're 
>> using RESOLVED OBSOLETE to be consistent with the Gnome project bugs.
>> * Import the changes to bugs.gnucash.org
>> * Re-enable updates in the bugzilla code; that's disabled now because 
>> imports don't work if it's enabled.
>>
>> User accounts are preserved, but passwords are obviously not preserved. 
>> Existing bugzilla.gnome.org users should use the "forgot my password" link 
>> on https://bugs.gnucash.org to get a password reset and to enable their 
>> accounts after the migration is complete.
>>
>> Bug CC lists *are* preserved so you will get email notifications for 
>> changes to bugs that you've commented on or otherwise added yourself to the 
>> CC list. "Watching" links are *not* preserved so if you were watching 
>> another user or one of the category users you'll need to reset that in 
>> Email Preferences (click the Preferences link at the top of the page after 
>> you log in).
>>
>> The category users are:
>> * gnucash-core-maint at gnucash.bugs             GnuCash/Backend-SQL, 
>> Backend-XML, Budgets, Build system, Business, Currency and Commodity, Engine
>> * gnucash-documentation-maint at gnucash.bugs    Documentation, Website, 
>> GnuCash/Translations
>> * gnucash-general-maint at gnucash.bugs          GnuCash/General
>> * gnucash-import-maint at gnucash.bugs           GnuCash/Import - *, TXF Export
>> * gnucash-mac-maint at gnucash.bugs              Packaging/MacOS, GnuCash/MacOS
>> * gnucash-reports-maint at gnucash.bugs          GnuCash/Check Printing, Reports
>> * gnucash-ui-maint at gnucash.bugs               GnuCash/Regist2, Register, 
>> User Interface General
>> * gnucash-win-maint at gnucash.bugs              Packaging/Windows, GnuCash 
>> Windows
>> * gnucash-all-maint at gnucash.bugs              All bugs
>>
>> Since we have the whole bug tracker to ourselves we've created some new 
>> products and moved some bugs into them:
>> * GnuCash         continues to collect reports on the application itself.
>> * Documentation   collects documentation reports
>> * Packaging       collects reports about the all-in-one Windows and MacOS 
>> packages that are not about GnuCash application code.
>> * Website         collects reports about www.gnucash.org.
>>
>> More information on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
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