Request for comments on dry-run Trac -> GitLab migration

TL;DR. Have a look at this [2] test import of GHC's Trac tickets. Tell us what issues you find. Hello everyone, As you likely know, we are currently in the process of consolidating GHC's infrastructure on GitLab [1]. The last step of this process is to migrate our tickets and wiki from Trac. Towards this end I am happy to announce the availability of a test GitLab instance [2] for the community's review. This is a clone of gitlab.haskell.org but with the addition of tickets [3] and GHC wiki [4] content imported from a Trac dump from earlier this month. There are a few known issues: * There are currently around 50 tickets missing from the import; we are working on identifying where they escaped to * The revision history of the Wiki is currently squashed due to performance issues [6] with GitLab's wiki implementation We intend to resolve both of these problems by the time of the final migration. If you find a ticket on the staging instance with problems that are not in the above list please do add the `import problems` label to it so we can have a look. There are a few aesthetic questions that could use community input: * Should the "Trac Metadata" boxes be always visible? * How do we make the Wiki index [7] more usable? Imposing more hierarchy to the page names would likely help but I'm still a bit worried that it will be hard to browse. Please do take a few minutes to peruse the test import and check for mistakes or potential usability issues. GHC's Trac tickets are one of the crown-jewels of the project; we want to make sure we get this migration right as will be living with the result for a long time to come. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ [2] https://gitlab.staging.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/ [3] https://gitlab.staging.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues [4] https://gitlab.staging.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wiki [6] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57179 [7] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16212 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 487 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/attachments/20190204/ea647c70/attachment.sig>