Is a dump of the old bugzilla.kernel.org available?

Is a dump of the old bugzilla.kernel.org available?

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Previously there was a bugzilla instance at
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org>.  It was handy for reading people's
reports, and some mailing list threads and patches refer to it.

I am happy to see people today reporting bugs directly to developers
through mailing lists instead, which works better, anyway.  So
reading[1]

| Rafael said he didn't see a whole lot of value in restoring the
| bugzilla in its previous form; it would be better to start over with
| an improved installation.

worried me a little.  Is there a plan to make the information that was
previously in bugzilla available in the meantime?  How can interested
people help?

Looking forward to your thoughts,
Jonathan

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/464499/

Re: Is a dump of the old bugzilla.kernel.org available?

[John 'Warthog9' Hawley]

On 11/11/2011 03:19 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Previously there was a bugzilla instance at
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org>.  It was handy for reading people's
> reports, and some mailing list threads and patches refer to it.
> 
> I am happy to see people today reporting bugs directly to developers
> through mailing lists instead, which works better, anyway.  So
> reading[1]
> 
> | Rafael said he didn't see a whole lot of value in restoring the
> | bugzilla in its previous form; it would be better to start over with
> | an improved installation.
> 
> worried me a little.  Is there a plan to make the information that was
> previously in bugzilla available in the meantime?  How can interested
> people help?

Bugzilla *WILL* be restored at some point, there are a lot of other
people who use it beyond Rafael.

It's not back up for a number of reasons, the biggest is that the
hardware that needs to be in place to get the dynamic web stuff from
kernel.org (wikis, bugzilla, kernel oops, etc) up and running, isn't in
place yet.  Right now I don't have an absolutely solid ETA on that, but
I will try and let people know once I do.

I've gotten the wikis up in a read-only form, but I don't have so easy a
way to do that with bugzilla.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Chief Kernel.org Administrator

Re: Is a dump of the old bugzilla.kernel.org available?

[Jonathan Nieder]

John 'Warthog9' Hawley wrote:

> It's not back up for a number of reasons, the biggest is that the
> hardware that needs to be in place to get the dynamic web stuff from
> kernel.org (wikis, bugzilla, kernel oops, etc) up and running, isn't in
> place yet.  Right now I don't have an absolutely solid ETA on that, but
> I will try and let people know once I do.
>
> I've gotten the wikis up in a read-only form, but I don't have so easy a
> way to do that with bugzilla.

Thanks.  

The only ways I know of to mine data from a bugzilla instance are to
make a database dump[1] or to use the XML that the CGI scripts spit
out[2].  So I fear I can't help much.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Move_Installation
[2] e.g., http://www.roundup-tracker.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ImportingFromBugzilla