Re: eCos Bugzilla bugs on http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

[Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>]

Hi again Dave

We appreciate you must be busy, but would appreciate a yes or no answer 
on our request for your assistance below.

Thanks
-- Alex


Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
> Hi Dave
>
> Hope you are well and thing at Red Hat are good.
>
> We have a favour to ask.  We (the ecos maintainers and eCosCentric) have 
> set up our own bugzilla system http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/ to start 
> tracking eCos bugs since there are a number of issues, such as site 
> customizations ,we need resolved that we obviouly realise will not be 
> possible in Red Hat's commercial system.
>
> Hence we would like to move over the outstanding (non-closed) bugs from 
> bugzilla.redhat.com into bugs.ecos.sourceware.org. I would like to do 
> this the easy way, as we previously discussed (when I worked at RH), by 
> having you export the data as a series of SQL INSERT statements which we 
> can use to import directly into our mysql database.  I won't go into the 
> hard way, although you can probably guess.
>
> I realize you will have some site customizations so am quite prepared to 
> do a fair bit of work to massage the exported data into a state that we 
> can import it.  For example:
>   * userids will not match
>   * priority and severity will not match
>   * platforms and host os will not match
>   etc
>
> My solution, since this is a once off deal, is simply to import the bugs 
> into a temporary database, to massage the data and tables to match the 
> setup on bugs.ecos.sourceware.org and then export from the temp to the 
> actual database.  As part of the transfer we would also like to add 
> notes to the bugzilla.redhat.com bugs, providing the new URL where the 
> bug has been moved to and setting the state/resolution to CLOSED+MOVED.
>
> Are you able to provide us with a dump of the eCos bugs?
>
> Thanks
> -- Alex