Re: CodeX Bug tracking up and running on Savannah

Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:36:56PM +0200, Laurent Julliard wrote:
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>>Et voil=E0... the new bug tracking of Savannah is in place and as far a=
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>>can see it works ok. I have just made a couple of test though and you=20
>>should have received the first Savannah bug (bug #7) email notification.
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> Nice job.
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Thanks!

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>>Again play with it and if you know of other projects on Savannah that=20
>>are badly missing a bug tracker then may be you can forward them this=20
>>message and tell them to beta-test the bug tracker (they must activate=20
>>the service first in Project Admin -> Edit Public Info)
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> Is it posible to import bug databases from other systems? I think the m=
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> frequently asked question will be "can I import my gnats bugs database =
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> Savannah?".

I haven't used GNATS for sometime now so I don't remember what the GNATS=20
*export* format looks like. But if it is a CSV file format or similar=20
then we should be able to do something with it.

I see the import as a 2 phases job:

a) the project team will first have to configure a set of bug fields=20
that is identical to the one they use in GNATS (including the set of=20
pre-defined values they use for each field)

b) Given the CSV output and the GNATS -> Savannah field mapping we=20
should be able to generate SQL statement that directly insert records in=20
the bug database.

The only problem I see is that it will be impossible to preserve the Bug=20
ID from one system to another because the Savannah BTS uses global bug=20
id counter for all projects (not one per project).

Do you have (or know of) a sample GNAT project at hand that we could use=20
as a test?

Laurent

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