Re: Bugzilla migration tool user accounts

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 09:48 -0500, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 14:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 04:21 +0000, philip chimento gmail com wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > This is about the migration tool for Bugzilla bug reports to
> > > GitLab
> > > issues. See, for background, issues [1] and [2]. Currently, the
> > > migration tool posts all the migrated issues and their associated
> > > comments as one single user; either the maintainer who runs the
> > > script, or a special 'bugzilla-migration' user.
> >
> > At the very least, I'd expect people who were on CC: for the
> > Bugzilla
> > bugs to also be CC:ed on the GitLab issues.
> >
> > I'm currently on the CC: list for more than 2000 bugs in Bugzilla.
> > That
> > doesn't cover modules for which I'm a co-maintainer and would have
> > received automated -maint gnome bugs emails. I would hate to have
> > to
> > resubscribe to every one of those by hand.
> >
> > I already found the 20-odd bugs I was CC:ed on in gnome-calendar a
> > pain
> > to resubscribe to, so you can imagine with 2k bugs.
> >
> > Also, my GNOME.org gitlab registered e-mail address isn't the same
> > as
> > my bugzilla mail address. It's another problem you might run into
> > with
> > the migration script.
>
> To be checked in the script, but you have to make sure your bugzilla
> email is listed in gitlab (it supports multiple email).

Cool.

>  After migration
> there will be no issue removing old emails. You can also change your
> email in bugzilla too if you want, that works these days.

No thanks :)