Re: [Monotone-devel] [IMPORTANT] Issue migration

[Julio Merino]

On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Thomas Keller wrote:

> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I've hacked together a small script [0] which imports Savannah's bug
> export format into indefero. This works reasonably well and preserves
> timestamps, authors, states (and state changes), file attachments and
> more. Since every issue and every comment needs a valid indefero user
> though and since not all people have registered an indefero account
> until now, there will be quite a few older bugs which I can only assign
> to an "unknown" pseudo user. If you want to ensure that your bugs /
> comments are properly assigned to you, then check if your savannah user
> login matches your IDF login and if not, drop me a note, so I can adapt
> the mapping.

What I did when I migrated my blog was to stick a "Originally posted by ... at 
[old location]" line at the very beginning of every comment.  You'd do the same 
for those usernames that do not have any mapping.