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Importing my Sourceforge bugs

Asked by Charlie Poole

The NUnit Framework 2.5 project is moving completely off of Sourceforge to Launchpad. We have begun processing bugs on Launchpad and I'd like to import my remaining open bugs (or all of them if it's easier) from Sourceforge. Is that possible?

The Launchpad project is http://launchpad.net/nunit-2.5. The sourceforge project name is nunit.

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I've assigned this to myself for import purposes -- gmb
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Best Graham Binns (gmb) said : 		#1

> The NUnit Framework 2.5 project is moving completely off of Sourceforge to Launchpad. We have begun processing bugs on Launchpad and I'd like to import my remaining open bugs (or all of them if it's easier) from Sourceforge. Is that possible?

Hi Charlie,

Yes, this is possible. We have a Relax-NG schema, the Launchpad Bug
Interchange format [1], which we use for these imports. We used to
have a script that would create the export from a SourceForge project,
however it no longer works for various reasons (mainly because it did
a lot of screen scraping). Unfortunately, we don't have the resources
at the moment to be able to update it so that it works properly.

So, your best way forward at this point is to get an XML dump of the
SourceForge project (SourceForge still offers this, as far as I know)
and transform it so that it meets the interchange format.

Once we've got an interchange-format file the process is as follows:

 1. We run the import on a local instance so that we can be sure that
none of the data will cause any problems.
 2. We run the import on staging so that you can check that all the
bugs have been imported properly.
 3. We run the import on production and hopefully everyone's happy.

Just post here when you've got an XML file for us to import. Let me
know if I can help with generating it.

 [1] https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/ImportFormat

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Charlie Poole (charlie.poole) said : 		#2

I've got the xml and will look at it to see how easy it is to convert - have to tell you
I *hate* working with XML. :-)

I'll be back when it's ready.

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Charlie Poole (charlie.poole) said : 		#3

Thanks Graham Binns, that solved my question.