git migration scheduled for 11 March 2014

[Mark Côté]

There were a few complications getting the mirroring script up today; we
need a few bits of infrastructure tweaked.  I'll announce when it's
running, hopefully by next week some time.

Mark


On 2/17/2014, 9:33 AM, Mark Côté wrote:
> One correction: we will also be mirroring changes to the bugzilla/qa and
> bmo/qa branches from git to bzr.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 2/16/2014, 12:41 AM, Mark Côté wrote:
>> Hi all, I got IT's go-ahead to perform the bzr-to-git migration of
>> Bugzilla and related code from bzr.mozilla.org to git.mozilla.org on
>> Tuesday, 11 March 2014, starting at 17:00 UTC.  At this time, all Bazaar
>> branches on bzr.mozilla.org will be made read-only (aside from a few
>> admin accounts), and the migration to git repos on git.mozilla.org will
>> commence.  It should take around 1.5 hours to migrate everything, after
>> which point write access will be enabled on the git repos for all users
>> previously authorized on bzr.mozilla.org.  A script will periodically
>> mirror changes from git to bzr for all currently supported Bugzilla
>> branches (4.0, 4.2, and 4.4).  Changes will not be mirrored for any
>> other branches of Bugzilla nor any other related branches (extensions,
>> misc, etc.).
>>
>> We will start mirroring changes to read-only repos on GitHub at some
>> point (to be determined) after the migration to git.mozilla.org.
>> git.mozilla.org will remain the repository of record, meaning the only
>> place to which changes should be committed by developers.  All
>> mirroring, e.g. to GitHub and bzr.mozilla.org, will be unidirectional.
>>
>> We've already done one test migration; see http://git.mozilla.org.  It
>> was successful aside from some missed file deletions, resulting in extra
>> files on a handful of git repos after the migration.  I manually deleted
>> the superfluous files after migration, and I also fixed the migration
>> script to account for this oddity in Bazaar's fast-export output, so it
>> won't happen during the real migration.
>>
>> I would like to open up testing to all developers, starting with another
>> complete, fresh migration, on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, around 17:00
>> UTC.  To test the git-to-bzr mirroring script, we'll create a new
>> branch, "migration-test", off of Bugzilla trunk and run the mirroring
>> script on it after the migration.  We'll leave it running until the real
>> migration, and I invite anyone with commit access to bzr.mozilla.org to
>> commit changes to the test-migration branch on git and ensure that they
>> are mirrored properly to bzr.
>>
>> The full migration and testing plan, along with other details, is at
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Migrating_to_git.
>>
>> Mark
>> Manager of the bugzilla.mozilla.org development team
>>
> 

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