From paddy-hack at member.fsf.org  Mon Feb  5 11:24:17 2018
From: paddy-hack at member.fsf.org (Olaf Meeuwissen)
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:24:17 +0900
Subject: [Alioth-staff-replacement] Migrating tracker items
In-Reply-To: <20180202125502.GB5400@smithers.snow-crash.org>
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 <20180202125502.GB5400@smithers.snow-crash.org>
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Hi Alexander,

Alexander Wirt writes:

> On Fri, 02 Feb 2018, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> What is still on my list of things to migrate is the SANE project's
>> collection of Tracker items.  There are well over 1600 with more than
>> 400 still open.  I've tried the CSV export but that includes neither
>> attachments nor comments.  The export only appears to have the initial
>> submission and the current state.
>>
>> I could script scraping the web pages but it would be a lot easier for
>> me (and on the server) if I could work from a dump of the project's data
>> (similar to the mbox file you provide for mailing list migration).  Can
>> that be arranged?
>>
>> Either all of the project's DB data or "just" all of the tracker items
>> would be fine for me.
>
> I have no idea how to extract them. Feel free to read the fusionforge docs to
> tell me how to do so. But please don't expect that I will have time to find
> out on my own.

I was afraid you would say that :-|  Guess that, in good Free Software
tradition, I get to help myself ...

For fusionforge 6.1 I found

  https://fusionforge.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fusionforge/index.php/Forge_command_line/6.1#Tracker

but no such thing for 5.3.2.  Will dig a bit more.
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