[fpc-devel] To all Mantis (Bugtracker) account holders - prepare for the move to Gitlab - Now

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2021, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel wrote:

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>> On Jul 17, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> 
>> 
>> To map your gitlab user name (or ID) to the
>> mantis user, we ask that you file an issue in the mantis project of the
>> current bugtracker
>> https://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_report_page.php?project_id=4
>> Assign it the category gitlab, and set the summary of
>> the bugreport to your gitlab account name or ID number (not both!).
>
> I signed in with GitLab using my GitHub account (where may user name is
> @genericptr).  Does that mean simply file a report with the "summary"
> field containing "genericptr"?

Yes.

> I guess this process is automated.  I have
> a number of open reports I'd like transferred over.

All reports are transferred. We need the username to refer to you as a user,
I suppose as a user you can also see all reports in which you are mentioned.

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> Does this mean the Mantis reporter is going be shut down or are users simply encouraged to not post new reports there?

Mantis will be shut down. I will only place a redirect so old 'view' links
will be redirected permanently to gtilab.

Michael.