[ZF] Please comment! Re: Zope Development Process

[Jim Fulton]

Steve Alexander wrote:
...

>> Also, does Launchpad have any mechanism for importing or exporting data
>> such as bugs and features?
> 
> There's an XML bug export coming very soon.  The code's been written for
> this, and it is waiting to be deployed on the live servers.
> 
> There will be an XML export for specifications.  We have an unsupported
> page for this now, but it will be changing to be consistent with the bug
> data export.
> 
> I can arrange for bug and feature data to be imported into Launchpad.
> There is no standard way to do this right now, although we can import
> bugs from SourceForge as we had to do that for the Python bug tracking
> competition.  We can do it either by screen-scraping, or from a database
> dump of some sort.  For the Zope proposals, James Henstridge wrote a
> screen-scaper for the Zope wikis that knows about the various ways
> people have represented metadata in proposals.

Will you support import of your own exports?  I would hope so.
Then you just need to document the xml format and if we want to
import old data, like collector issues, then we could write software
to generate data in your XML format.

Jim

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