Re: Need help with GitHub Issues migration

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 07:03:10PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On 25. Feb 2025, at 16:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> is it possible to convert the PR template to a form as well?
>> it's _remarkable_ how many people don't delete the instruction text ...
>
>Unfortunately, no, that's not possible.
>
drat

>However, I have added an HTML comment around the instructions. I hope
>that helps.
>
hmm, the preview renders it without the comments.
but i've seen that in several projects, and the plain-text mail
notifications arrive with the comments included, which is mightily
annoying. so unless these were user errors on the side of the
contributors, it might be better to put banners at the top and bottom
that tell that the instructions are to be deleted by the contributor
after being followed. well, banners in comments, maybe, for an extra
layer of defense.

>I wonder how you identified them? I did a SQL select for duplicate
>summaries, so I missed this one.
>
i did the silly thing and actually scrolled through the 35 pages of
tickets.
i started doing that because i didn't remember at what point the break
in the numbering was, but once i found some dupes i thought i'd just go
on.

>Did you mean that instead of copying the timeline trail, I could
>reconstruct PRs from merged branches for issues that lead to merges?
>
yes. well, as indicated, i'm not sure what exactly would happen to the
trails. the main idea would be to have a linked source branch and have
the activity on it represented in the usual gh way. that seems to
fundamentally match what trac does, though i never really understood the
details of the latter, as i didn't contribute that way.

>This is definitely less hopeless than assessing tickets with patches.
>Unfortunately, the data is still far too messy to make it a largely
>automated process. I also don't see much benefit in doing so...
>
yeah, it would just look good (a very high-level representation of
coding activity), and might be nicer for some "forensics", but other
than that it doesn't seem very valuable. if it was a low-hanging fruit,
it might be still worthwhile.
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