Re: Bugzilla migration tool user accounts

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 05:43 +0000, philip chimento gmail com wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:48 AM Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@ndufresne.c
> a> 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). 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.
>
> Indeed, I'm not planning to support an outside mapping of emails
> other than what is in GitLab — good catch that GitLab accounts can
> have more than one email address. I'll need to check that the script
> will behave properly in that case.
>
> Bastien, do you also mean to imply that the wish to be subscribed to
> > 2000 issues means that receiving >2000 mails won't be a problem?

That's fine if I only receive a single mail for each issue. It's either
that, or having to resub to each issue, or lose track of issues I'm
interested in, neither of which are particularly appealing.