[Tracker-discuss] What time to do the transition?

[Erik Forsberg]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:39:56 +0200
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> > Hmm.. on the matter of doing the transition - are we sure that the
> > export functionality on sf doesn't break when we disable the sf.net
> > trackers? Perhaps it would be better not to do anything (except
> > perhaps a warning text) about the tracker until we've done the
> > export, and possibly also the import as the files attached to the
> > sf tracker must be downloaded during import (not all of them, just
> > new ones).
> > 
> > Perhaps I'm just worrying to much? :)
> 
> I just tried it in a different project, and indeed, SF will remove
> the hidden trackers from the export :-(
> 
> There is a third state of a tracker, "Visible to project members
> only". In that state, data still get exported.

Hmm.. are the attached files still available for download by anonymous
users, or do you need to be logged in to do that? 

Perhaps we should go with a simpler approach:

1) Put BIG RED WARNING on top of each tracker page.

2) Do export + import.

3) Check if there's been any important modifications after the export,
and warn the people that made these modifications that they need to be
recommited to the new tracker (because they failed to see the warning)

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