[cfe-dev] Bugzilla migration is stopped again

[Demi Marie Obenour via cfe-dev]

On 12/3/21 19:18, Anton Korobeynikov via cfe-dev wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I hate to say this, but the migration was stopped again. Now it seems
> that GitHub does not rewrite issue references properly during the
> transfer (sick!). Let me show what the problem is exactly:
> 
> Consider two issues: A and B, where A will reference B and B will
> reference A. In our case this is used to model various relations like
> "duplicates / is duplicated by", "blocks / is blocked by", "depends on
> / required by". So, in bz archive A will reference B as #B and B
> will reference #A.
> 
> Now, let's migrate A. The references will be rewritten. #B =>
> bz-archive#B and #A => llvm-project#A. However, after migration of B
> only one reference is rewritten llvm-project#A => #A, the bz-archive#B
> link in the issue A will not be rewritten and therefore a dangling
> reference will appear.
> 
> For us this means that we will lose all links to duplicate issues, and
> (more important!) to linked issues in the meta bugs.
> 
> I informed GitHub about the bug and I am waiting for their answer.

Is “cancel the migration permanently” an option?  From what I can tell,
GitHub doesn’t seem like a very reliable choice compared to Bugzilla.
Could someone else (perhaps Mozilla?) help host the Bugzilla instance?

-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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