[tor-bugs] #30857 [Internal Services/Services Admin Team]: migrate (some projects? everything?) from trac to gitlab

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#30857: migrate (some projects? everything?) from trac to gitlab
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 Reporter:  anarcat                              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project                              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Services Admin     |        Version:
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 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tickets-migration                    |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #29400                               |         Points:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 >  Yes. I understand the problem you are describing and the solution you
 have. And I'm not sure how we are going to have something usable in gitlab
 with all the issues in one project (legacy in your example).
 >
 >  We could have all trac issues in a 'legacy project' and then any new
 issue in its own project (the structure that we proposed in the gitlab
 migration document). But still will make it hard to manage issues that
 way.

 You're absolutely right: it would be awful to have all tickets in the same
 project in GitLab.

 That's not what I'm proposing here.

 What I am proposing is that we '''import''' all tickets in the same
 ''legacy'' project '''BUT''' we then '''move''' each ticket to the right
 project outside of ''legacy''.

 The goal of importing everything in the same project is to make
 redirections workable. Without this, we have to guess, on the redirection
 side, which project the ticket ended up in. This could be quite difficult
 to implement and will lead a complex redirection system. We're lucky
 enough to have a "flat" numbering space for the ticket numbers in Trac
 (there's only one list of tickets), so it would be great to have the same
 thing on GitLab's side.

 By importing all tickets in the same project and then moving them, we
 accomplish this: the redirector can point to the legacy project, which in
 turn will point to the right project the issue has been moved to. I think
 it's a win-win...

 >  I understand the problem but I do not think the legacy project is a
 solution that works for us.

 ... but I'm ready to accept that as well. It's the best solution I can
 think of but I'd be happy to hear about possible alternatives. The only
 one I can think of is to have an explicit list of ticket N ->
 GITLAB_PROJECT_NAME/Y with ~40,000 entries, and I think that would be a
 pain in the ass to create and carry around forever. :)

 In summary, I agree with you that having all tickets in the same project
 is not workable, and that's not what I'm suggesting.

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