Bugzilla Upgrade breakage

[Mike McGrath]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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> Mike McGrath wrote:
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>> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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>>> Hey guys,
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>>> The bugzilla upgrade planned for this Friday will break the FAS =>
>>> Bugzilla sync.  The problem is that the current method of syncing is:
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>>> 1) cron job fires
>>> 2) everyone is removed from the bugzilla fedora_contrib group.
>>> 3) everyone in fedorabugs is added to the fedora_contrib group
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>>> In the migrated system, we are not going to be able to do step #2
>>> (because we will no longer have access to the db and there's no xmlrpc
>>> call to do it.)
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>>> I'm planning on introducing this kludge to make things work:
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>>> 1) user is removed from fedorabugs.
>>> 2) user is added to a new FAS table with a remove flag: bugzilla_queue
>>> 3) user is added to fedorabugs
>>> 4) user is added to bugzilla_queue with an add flag
>>> 5) cron job fires
>>> 6) user in bugzilla_queue are added or removed from fedora_contrib
>>> according to the flag.
>>> 7) user is removed from bugzilla_queue
>>> 8) repeat from #6 until no more users in queue.
>>>
>>> Unless someone can come up with a better method, I'll be implementing
>>> this today.
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>> Is there a way to simplify this if we work with the bugzilla people? 
>> Would they even be willing?
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> I've been talking to Dave Lawrence who has added everything else we
> needed to the new xmlrpc API.  However, this one hasn't been addressed.
>      It looks like I didn't actually send the last message I wrote to
> him so I'll try to reach him about this.  But we've only got two days
> until the switchover so....
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yeah, thanks for catching this and coming up with a fix.

    -Mike