Renaming a category?

Renaming a category?

[Hans-Albert Schneider]

What is the preferred way to rename a category?

For GNATS 3.113, I am currently aware of the following procedure
(assume renaming from "A" to "B"):

1) Create a new category "B".
2) Edit each report in "A", changing the category to "B".
3) Remove category "A".
4) Run gen-index.

(I once tried to just rename the directory from "A" to "B" (and
the entry in gnats-adm/categories, of course), and found that
gen-index produced A/17 instead of B/17, because the Category
field had not been changed.  This was probably with an earlier
version than 3.113; is gen-index now more clever about this?)


Is there an easier way?  Maybe with version 4?

In step 2), do I need to invoke edit-pr and manually edit all
reports, or can I just run something like

    for each report $n in category A,
	sed -e "/^>Category:/ s/A/B/"  < A/$n  > B/$n
	rm A/$n


Thanks for your hints,

       Hans-Albert
-- 
Hans-Albert Schneider		<Hans-Albert.Schneider@mchp.siemens.de>
Siemens AG			phone:	(+49) 89 636 45445
Corporate Technology		fax:	(+49) 89 636 42284
Munich, Germany
 -- To get my public PGP key, send me a mail with subject "send key" --

Re: Renaming a category?

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 15:26 23.04.2001 +0200, Hans-Albert Schneider wrote:
>What is the preferred way to rename a category?
>
>For GNATS 3.113, I am currently aware of the following procedure
>(assume renaming from "A" to "B"):
>
>1) Create a new category "B".
>2) Edit each report in "A", changing the category to "B".
>3) Remove category "A".
>4) Run gen-index.
>
>(I once tried to just rename the directory from "A" to "B" (and
>the entry in gnats-adm/categories, of course), and found that
>gen-index produced A/17 instead of B/17, because the Category
>field had not been changed.  This was probably with an earlier
>version than 3.113; is gen-index now more clever about this?)
>
>
>Is there an easier way?  Maybe with version 4?
>
>In step 2), do I need to invoke edit-pr and manually edit all
>reports, or can I just run something like
>
>     for each report $n in category A,
>         sed -e "/^>Category:/ s/A/B/"  < A/$n  > B/$n
>         rm A/$n

I don't think there is a better way. I have had to do the same thing myself 
on a few occasions. Automating step 2 should be OK, though. Gnats4 has no 
improvements with regards to this. This might be an idea for a new admin 
tool in a future version.



Yngve Svendsen
IS Engineer
Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
yngve.svendsen@clustra.com
Cell.: +47 913 915 02

Re: Renaming a category?

[Hans-Albert Schneider]

It's time for a summary:

>>>>> "HAS" == Hans-Albert Schneider <Hans-Albert.Schneider@mchp.siemens.de> writes:

    HAS> What is the preferred way to rename a category?  For
    HAS> GNATS 3.113, I am currently aware of the following
    HAS> procedure (assume renaming from "A" to "B"):

    HAS> 1) Create a new category "B".
    HAS> 2) Edit each report in "A", changing the category to "B".
    HAS> 3) Remove category "A".
    HAS> 4) Run gen-index.
[...]

    HAS> Is there an easier way?  Maybe with version 4?

Summary:
	There is currently no other way, neither in version 3.x
	nor in version 4.

    HAS> In step 2), do I need to invoke edit-pr and manually
    HAS> edit all reports, or can I just run something like

    [simple minded for-loop with sed removed]

Summary:
	To take care of locking, edit-pr or pr-edit --lock should
	be used.  Otherwise, automating is OK.

I already had the idea to use edit-pr with the EDITOR variable
set to something like the sed command.  I meanwhile have written
a shell script to do this.  (This also was an exercise for me to
write a script that tries to be a bit security conscious, so its
purpose was not just to re-invent the wheel.)

Tools:
	There is a PERL script by Sherry Wasserman.
	There is also my script now. :-)


Thanks for replying to:
       Yngve Svendsen
       Sherry Wasserman
       Rick Macdonald


Hans-Albert

-- 
Hans-Albert Schneider		<Hans-Albert.Schneider@mchp.siemens.de>
Siemens AG			phone:	(+49) 89 636 45445
Corporate Technology		fax:	(+49) 89 636 42284
Munich, Germany
 -- To get my public PGP key, send me a mail with subject "send key" --

RE: Renaming a category?

[Wasserman, Sherry]

Hello,

If others have access to the gnats database while you are changing the
category, you should probably be concerned about locking the PRs.

If you change the category field manually (by using gnatsweb or edit-pr), 
the normal PR locking mechanism will prevent changes (yours or theirs) from 
being overwritten.  The PR will also be moved to the new category location 
and the index entry will be created by the software.  You won't have to do
gen-index.

If you use sed,  you should either lock the PRs that are going 
to be changed (pr-edit --lock), or lock gnats by creating the gnats.lock
file 
in the gnats-admin directory.  (Don't forget  to remove the locks it when
you're done.)

I recently created a tool to move all PRs from one category to another 
with the following command:
	perl catmove  [-d gnats_root]  <old category> <new category> ...

I'll be happy to send this, if you are interested.

Sherry Wasserman
Comverse 
1025 Briggs Rd., Suite 100
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Voice (856) 608-2858 Fax (856) 866-8850

	





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yngve Svendsen [ mailto:yngve.svendsen@clustra.com ]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: Hans-Albert.Schneider@mchp.siemens.de;
> gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Renaming a category?
> 
> 
> At 15:26 23.04.2001 +0200, Hans-Albert Schneider wrote:
> >What is the preferred way to rename a category?
> >
> >For GNATS 3.113, I am currently aware of the following procedure
> >(assume renaming from "A" to "B"):
> >
> >1) Create a new category "B".
> >2) Edit each report in "A", changing the category to "B".
> >3) Remove category "A".
> >4) Run gen-index.
> >
> >(I once tried to just rename the directory from "A" to "B" (and
> >the entry in gnats-adm/categories, of course), and found that
> >gen-index produced A/17 instead of B/17, because the Category
> >field had not been changed.  This was probably with an earlier
> >version than 3.113; is gen-index now more clever about this?)
> >
> >
> >Is there an easier way?  Maybe with version 4?
> >
> >In step 2), do I need to invoke edit-pr and manually edit all
> >reports, or can I just run something like
> >
> >     for each report $n in category A,
> >         sed -e "/^>Category:/ s/A/B/"  < A/$n  > B/$n
> >         rm A/$n
> 
> I don't think there is a better way. I have had to do the 
> same thing myself 
> on a few occasions. Automating step 2 should be OK, though. 
> Gnats4 has no 
> improvements with regards to this. This might be an idea for 
> a new admin 
> tool in a future version.
> 
> 
> 
> Yngve Svendsen
> IS Engineer
> Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
> yngve.svendsen@clustra.com
> Cell.: +47 913 915 02
> 

RE: Renaming a category?

[Rick Macdonald]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Wasserman, Sherry wrote:

> I recently created a tool to move all PRs from one category to another 
> with the following command:
> 	perl catmove  [-d gnats_root]  <old category> <new category> ...
> 
> I'll be happy to send this, if you are interested.

This should be added to the contrib directory (if there still is one) or
become part of gnats itself!

...RickM...

RE: Renaming a category?

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 12:26 23.04.2001 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Wasserman, Sherry wrote:
>
> > I recently created a tool to move all PRs from one category to another
> > with the following command:
> >       perl catmove  [-d gnats_root]  <old category> <new category> ...
> >
> > I'll be happy to send this, if you are interested.
>
>This should be added to the contrib directory (if there still is one) or
>become part of gnats itself!

I agree. Presumably, it's specifically created for Gnats 3, but no major 
changes should be necessary for v4.

I assume Milan will grab hold of this when he has time.

Yngve Svendsen
IS Engineer
Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
yngve.svendsen@clustra.com

Re: Renaming a category?

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "WS" == Wasserman, Sherry <Sherry.Wasserman@comverse.com> writes:

    WS> I recently created a tool to move all PRs from one category to another 
    WS> with the following command:
    WS>   perl catmove  [-d gnats_root]  <old category> <new category> ...

    WS> I'll be happy to send this, if you are interested.

Of course we are interested, could you send me it, please?

Thanks,

Milan Zamazal

-- 
Omigod, it's a flame war about a flame war.  You know, a meta-flame war!
                                                 Kenny Tilton in comp.lang.lisp