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[Daniel Brookshier]

The best I can say for this is that we put up an archive of the data.  
I absolutely agree that this is the important.

Daniel Brookshier
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On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On 3/14/06, Daniel Brookshier <dbrookshier at collab.net> wrote:
>> \On Mar 14, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> ...
>>> I'm not at all interested in
>>> losing my existing bugzilla instance.
>>
>> This is indeed an issue that we are constantly battling at CollabNet.
>> Migration is never easy. MapGuide had a similar problem with
>> migrating their bug database. In the end they are only migrating the
>> open issues. I wish there was a clean import method, but the
>> CollabNet platform is not oriented at consuming old information - it
>> is not cost effective to support all the possible bug trackers and
>> their many versions.
>>
>> The good news is that the pain of it is fixed. Once you get over the
>> hump, it is smooth sailing.
>
> I would strongly discourage to lose the history of a project.
> Open Source projects are one of the few, where long term
> software engineering studies can be done. If you throw away
> all information, this is not helpful for analysing software  
> evolutionary
> patterns etc. If anyone needs references, I am happy to post
> here bibliography on comparative studies.
>
> The same applies to mailing list archives.
>
> Best
>
>  Markus
>
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