[Alioth-staff-replacement] Migrating tracker items

[Alexander Wirt]

On Fri, 02 Feb 2018, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Congrats on leaving beta!
> 
> The non-Debian SANE project is also on its way to migrate.  Doing the
> repositories is a no-brainer, the mailing lists will probably end up on
> the Dominic's "interim" mail continuation server and I'm looking at
> attaching our FRS artifacts to the corresponding release tags.  There
> are only sixteen so I can manage doing that manually.
> 
> # I've already downloaded them but it would have been a lot easier if I
> # could have rsync'd /var/lib/gforge/downlad/sane/.
> 
> 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. 

Alex