Activity log for bug #411360

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2009-08-10 11:16:12 Gavin Panella bug added bug
2009-08-10 12:53:17 Gavin Panella description Launchpad has a hard limit of 50000 characters for a bug description (there is a `sane_description` constraint on the bug table). This means that descriptions of more than 50000 characters will fail to import. The first comment for each bug is used to set the initial bug description on the import, before being overwritten by the contents of the description tag, if present and populated. This mimics the ways Launchpad works, and a "Show original description" link appears in the web UI if they differ. This means that both the contents of <description> *and* the contents of the first <comment><text> for each bug need to be limited to 5000 characters. The branch lp:~allenap/launchpad/bug-import-munging has a script that processes the generated XML to truncate the description and comment text to 30 lines and adding the whole content as an attachment. Similar behaviour should probably be put into the migrator script. Launchpad has a hard limit of 50000 characters for a bug description (there is a `sane_description` constraint on the bug table). This means that descriptions of more than 50000 characters will fail to import. The first comment for each bug is used to set the initial bug description on the import, before being overwritten by the contents of the description tag, if present and populated. This mimics the ways Launchpad works, and a "Show original description" link appears in the web UI if they differ. This means that both the contents of <description> *and* the contents of the first <comment><text> for each bug need to be limited to 50000 characters. The branch lp:~allenap/launchpad/bug-import-munging has a script that processes the generated XML to address this. It truncates the description and comment text to 30 lines, and adds the whole content as an attachment, but this behaviour really belongs in the migrator.
2009-10-19 13:36:41 Graham Binns trac-launchpad-migrator: status New Triaged
2009-10-19 13:36:44 Graham Binns trac-launchpad-migrator: importance Undecided High
2012-01-03 13:13:04 Robert Collins summary Description should be limited to 50000 characters Description is unlimited but LP limits description to 50000 characters
2012-01-03 13:13:24 Robert Collins trac-launchpad-migrator: importance High Low