Upcoming bug database migration this Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

[Dirk Pranke]

Hi all,

We will be migrating GN's bug database from bugs.chromium.org/p/gn to gn.issues.chromium.org this Thursday, Aug 22, 2024, probably starting around 9:30am US/Pacific time. 

We're doing this to follow Chromium's migration earlier this year, as we would like to be on the same system as Chromium (known as IssueTracker) and as bugs.chromium.org (known as Monorail) is no longer being developed.

We anticipate that the bug database will be in read-only mode for a decent chunk of the day. We will post updates on Thursday when the migration is starting and when it is complete. 

Given that we seem to be averaging about two updates a week, I expect this to inconvenience few people :).

When the migration is complete, all of the bugs on bugs.chromium.org/p/gn will be updated with links to their new locations. Note that the bug numbers will not be preserved across databases, i.e., everything will get a new bug number.

For those of you who are Googlers, we will have to do the same issues/g-issues authentication dance that we do for the Chromium IssueTracker.

Please ask away if you have any questions,

-- Dirk