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Retain bug id on import from other tracker

Asked by jesterKing

When creating an XML-file from our trackers (which are gforge-based), I see I can specify the bug number.

Will these numbers be used when importing into launchpad bug tracker or are they modified?

The original trackers are the blender bug trackers over at https://projects.blender.org/tracker/?group_id=9

The blender project at launchpad is https://launchpad.net/blender

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Graham Binns (gmb) said : 		#1

The bug numbers will be stored as part of the Launchpad Bug, though Launchpad assigns its own bug ID.

So, if you import bug 345123 into Launchpad, it may be imported as bug 600000 (because LP bug numbers are sequential and global) and may look something like this:

 Bug 600000
 Summary: The frobnobfricator is broken
 Description: When press a button a sign lights up asking me not to do it again
 Nickname: blender-345123

The old bug ID is stored in the Nickname field, and we use this to ensure that we don't do duplicate imports.

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jesterKing (jesterking) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply.

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Graham Binns (gmb) said : 		#3

One thing that I forgot to mention: You'd be able to navigate to the
bugs by nickname, so in the example above
http://launchpad.net/bugs/blender-345123 will simply redirect to
http://launchpad.net/bugs/600000.