Converting a project from Sourceforge.

[Mario]

On Dec 24, 2007 5:15 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
Hey Peter,


>
> I'm an upstream developer for the gEDA project. One of our users, Felipe
> Balbi has registered a launchpad project in our name, and I'm a little
> concerned that bugs / queries shouldn't get lost here.

Allow me to make a shoot at answering some of your questions.
Others can correct me if I say anything wrong.

>
>
> (If we started using launchpad, we'd perhaps ask for the project to be
> handed over to be owned by a number of the gEDA developers).
>
> We currently use sourceforge, and have separate trackers for bugs,
> feature requests patches, with various components setup. (gEDA is a
> suite of tools with different applications).
>
> I'd personally quite like to see us use launchpad for bug tracking, but
> wonder whether it is possible to import our existing bugs from
> sourceforge, and keep similar functionality in terms of tracking bugs,
> feature requests and patches for different components. (Ok, so patches
> could be submitted to either bugs or feature requests I guess).
>
> Is it possible to import from the sourceforge trackers?

Yes, it is possible.

>
>
> If so, is it possible to keep the same bug numbers?

No, it's not possible.

>
>
> Is it possible to differentiate bugs from feature requests and patches?

Yes, but in a different way then SF.

>
>
>
> Also, can someone point me at a guide as to how translations in
> launchpad work?

I have no guide, but ...Og Maciel has some nice articles on the subject,
for example: http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=282

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to  ask.

>
>
> Some of our users contribute translations. Is it possible for the .pot
> files to be imported into Launchpad's translation system for "random"
> people to help translate into more languages, or is this not the way it
> works?

I would say it's possible ;)

>
>
> Happy holidays!

Hopefully I helped a bit, and ...

Happy Holidays!
-- M.

>
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