[fpc-devel] Moving to gitlab.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, Denis Kozlov via fpc-devel wrote:

>
> Regarding the old bug tracker. Can you please keep it online, perhaps 
> making it accessible in read-only mode?
>
> There are many references to issues in the old bug tracker across many 
> code bases and discussions, at it would be a real shame to loose that 
> link so abruptly.

The links will not be dead.

>
> If keeping the old bug tracker alive (in read-only mode) is not 
> feasible.

No, because for security reasons I would need to maintain it (security
updates etc) and this is exactly why we move to gitlab, to get rid of the
release burden.

>  a good alternative is to set up redirects to the newly 
> generated issues in gitlab.

The redirects to gitlab are already in place. if the script cannot determine the page
to go to, you get the choice to select a bugtracker.

Note that the old bug ID is used in the new bugtracker, so if a bug was
transferred (and they should all be transferred) you can just search for the
old bug ID.

Michael.