[llvm-dev] IMPORTANT: LLVM Bugzilla migration

Thu Nov 25 02:26:12 PST 2021

FWIW: I added several workarounds to ensure that all filenames are
unique within the single issue. Hopefully this will allow us to
circumvent the github bug.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 7:29 PM Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I double checked all the steps and it looks
> like the issue is at the github side. What we provide them is
> perfectly fine and a complete dump.
>
> We have two options here:
>
> 1. Report the issue to github and wait until the issue is resolved
> 2. Ignore the issue
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 7:03 PM Jessica Clarke <jrtc27 at jrtc27.com> wrote:
> >
> > Checking through my two open issues, I found a problem with the conversion of one of them, https://github.com/llvm/test8/issues/36461. The original bugzilla bug has two different attachments, one of which was marked obsolete, but both attachments in GitHub link to identical files, which is the obsolete one. So I see three issues with that:
> >
> > 1. Obsolete status is lost (one of the attachments should be shown as obsolete somehow on GitHub)
> > 2. Different attachments are being merged into the same backing file
> > 3. If you are going to abandon obsolete attachments, you *must* not lose the *non-obsolete* ones
> >
> > This seems like a pretty basic thing that should’ve been caught ages ago; the issue in question has two comments and two attachments, it’s hardly unusual.
> >
> > Jess
> >
> > > On 23 Nov 2021, at 15:49, Anton Korobeynikov via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > After some heavy lifting we were able to make a repo that could be
> > > served as a preview.
> > > https://github.com/llvm/test8 is open for everyone with LLVM commit
> > > access. The example issue in question is
> > > https://github.com/llvm/test8/issues/42401
> > >
> > > Please note there is no way we can make it entirely read-only and any
> > > changes might trigger notifications.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 7:11 AM Fangrui Song <maskray at google.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 2021-11-22, Fangrui Song wrote:
> > >>> On 2021-11-22, Anton Korobeynikov via llvm-dev wrote:
> > >>>>> If we can attribute it to an anonymous entity, e.g. by putting "Anonymous LLVM Contributor 123 wrote:" at the top of a comment by llvmbot, at least readers can understand whether two comments on a bug are from the same person or from different people, for example. Can we at least do something like that?
> > >>>> We do this for issues. They are marked as submitted by "LLVM Bugzilla
> > >>>> Contributor".
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> And, if such a problem exists, I think we ought to address that problem before migration.
> > >>>> They had more than half a year to submit a survey and received
> > >>>> multiple notifications. We are not going to delay the migration due to
> > >>>> this.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> I very much doubt it's true that everyone who cares will have filled it out already. I mean, just speaking for myself...I think I filled out the form? But maybe I only intended to, but forgot to get around to it? Who knows. Assuming I actually did, I'm certain there are more people in the same situation who actually did _not_.
> > >>>> Well, you can simply go and submit it once again. We will certainly
> > >>>> take care of dups.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Some other questions that pop into my mind:
> > >>>> Great! Thanks for the questions. Probably they should have asked 2
> > >>>> years ago. You will be able to check the results by yourself after the
> > >>>> migration.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Thank for all your hard work! This issue tracker system has been a pain
> > >>> for so many people for years.
> > >>>
> > >>> I think having a small-scale review of the post-migration github
> > >>> repository can be very useful. It can be 1% (or larger?) of the current
> > >>> ~53000 issues. People will have some idea what the repository will look
> > >>> like, e.g. what portion of issues are anonymous.
> > >>
> > >> Extra points that a preview will be useful. We can know:
> > >> (use https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42401 as an example)
> > >>
> > >> * How "Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40482" is rendered.
> > >> * How "Bug 40482" (there are various forms, e.g. "bug 40482", "PR40482") is rendered. In Bugzilla this translates to https://llvm.org/PR40482
> > >> * How Product/Component map to GitHub tags.
> > >> * How attachments are rendered. In Bugzilla "Created attachment 22156 [details]" is a hyperlink. I assume that the attachments will just point back to bugs.llvm.org, which will become a static content website in the future.
> > >> * How anonymous contributors are suffixed with unique numbers.
> > >>
> > >>>> James: I imagine it'd be pretty easy for folks to forget that they didn't fill out the sheet, since there's no way to verify whether you did or not."
> > >>>
> > >>> Agree. Deep Majumder asked the requestion in the thread. A colleague of
> > >>> mine asked the same question.
> > >>>
> > >>> I just visited the Bugzilla / GitHub username mapping form and re-submitted my mapping
> > >>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUSCK-Rgl9H-8Ua0yat1KL1yELChxkJk15SfhnwPnIexTQUw/viewform
> > >>> There is no email confirmation.
> > >>>
> > >>> A contributor may have multiple email addresses. They may not submit
> > >>> their bugzilla email address or they may miss the notification to their
> > >>> not-regularly-used email address (possible due to closed registration for
> > >>> a long time).
> > >>>
> > >>> Yesterday I read
> > >>> https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2021-11-18-relicensing-update/ and notified
> > >>> 3 friends who were on the long-tail spreadsheet. Two of them are still
> > >>> contributing and told me that they missed the email notification because they
> > >>> had changed their primary email address. I am going to ask them whether
> > >>> they have submitted the mapping form...
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I think bugs.llvm.org has a local patch to display the banner:
> > >>> "New user self-registration is disabled due to spam. For an account please email bugs-admin at lists.llvm.org with your e-mail address and full name."
> > >>>
> > >>> Could the banner be toggled a bit to remind the user and show the Bugzilla / GitHub usernam mapping if submitted?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> > > Department of Statistical Modelling, Saint Petersburg State University
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> >
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>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Department of Statistical Modelling, Saint Petersburg State University

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Department of Statistical Modelling, Saint Petersburg State University