[fpc-devel] Moving to gitlab.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:

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>
> 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.

For clarity: the lazarus issues have already been transferred, the FPC ones
not yet; there is an issue with the svn -> git conversion.
(we need the git conversion to be done first)

Michael.