Out of sight out of mind

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/15/14, 12:21 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrew Edwards:
>
>> Already proven a valuable resource, GitHub offers the tools necessary
>> to resolve this problem. The "issues" feature (not currently activated
>> for any D-Programming-Language repo) allows us to set milestones (with
>> due dates), assign tasks, and create and apply labels (multiple where
>> required).
>
> How do you move the Bugzilla issues and their attach files and cross
> links to GitHub? And how do you move all that back to Bugzilla (or
> another bug manager) once something terrible happens to GitHub four
> years from now?

How do you recover your work from the GitHub five years from now when 
GitHub falls off the edge of the earth and simultaneously your PC with 
the only backup copy gets fried by an electrical surge?

Say GitHub never recovers from said disaster: what will you do to 
reunite all the developers working on D that seem far more productive 
than before moving to GitHub?

And while we are predicting the demise of GitHub, what happens when the 
server housing DITS fall into the same black hole as GitHub?

People repeatedly file the same bug report, even though those reports 
are publicly visible on an infinitely more powerful and internally 
controlled system than GitHub.

The database will be rebuilt by this very action. And that's assuming 
the worst case scenario: the GitHub server farm (and every productive 
member of the GitHub team) gets swallowed up by a black hole and no 
knows how to bring them back.

As for transferring the data to GitHub, nothing says the transition has 
to be instantaneous. It can be accomplished in two steps:

	1) Open all new issues in GitHub
	2) Migrate reports individually to GitHub and close out from on Bugzilla

#1 would cause the problem of requiring people to use two systems at the 
same time, but since we are already doing that, it does not add to the 
cognitive load. #2 poses the problem of who will do the work. Assuming 
there is no automatic way to get it done, I am willing to personally 
migrate every single report by hand.