[FFmpeg-devel] Roundup being migrated

[Luca Barbato]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:11:34PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:44:14PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:27:22PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:22:17PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>>>>> Roundup home changed, now it is hosted by axant.it, the db used is some 
>>>>>>> days old I should be able to get back the newer one shortly so tell me 
>>>>>>> if you can accept to have lost some data but you want it running now or 
>>>>>>> could wait till Monday to get the latest db from the previous box.
>>>>>> I prefer not to lose data, but I must admit it's very inconvenient that
>>>>>> roundup will not be (fully) available for the bug fixing weekend.
>>>>> The word incompetent comes to mind
>>>>> first because one doesnt do such a move when the tracker is needed most and
>>>>> second because one doesnt fail and require 3 days to copy some db.
>>>> The word "getting notified after they cut the cables" comes to mind.
>>> i didnt say you are incompetent, rather someone clearly is.
>> Well IF I had moved everything when I started setting it up on the other 
>> site and IF I hadn't wait to the last to make the switch probably you 
>> wouldn't notice the issue at all... Well I got sidetracked by real life 
>> commitments this week =|
>>
>>> how much data would be lost? if its just a few entries someone could copy
>>> and paste them from the ML / resend
>> The current update state of roundup is the following:
>>
>> - the website part of roundup has been setup by Feb 3 (including db 
>> dump), here is my fault not automatically syncing it from that time...
>> - the mail integration hadn't been done yet but I could get it working 
>> tomorrow for sure.
>> - roundup is currently live and usable from web
> 
> so people can add new bug reports?

Shouldn't since the mail gateway isn't configured yet it but I'll lock 
it now to be sure.

> if so what will happen when you again get access to the old db? can it be
> merged in at all?

I should be possible to merge it but since there are just 115 messages 
and we have it in email I'll try to get them in somehow.

> It is VERY important that issue numbers do not change from what they where
> before, besides the confusion, any reply to an old issue via mail/ML will
> let hell loose if the issue numbers changed ..

Right.

> IMO the most important thing now is to avoid further damage. And i do not
> think roundup can easyily be put back online before all past data has
> been included be that via getting access to the db or via manually reentering
> issues

I'll lock it down now, I'll try to recover everything from the mailing 
list or from the db tomorrow. Hopefully by tomorrow morning we'll have 
it back.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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