Gitea: Change ownership of issues/comments/PR from Github user to Gitea user after migration

[mrsdizzie]

Now that #7293 has happened, I think we have a good path to give ownership of migrated issues/comments/PRs to local Gitea users after a repo is migrated from Github.

When migrating, we store the Github user ID in the issues and comments table as original_author_id which means that we can match them if admin sets up Github as Authentication Source and a local user links their Github account.

For changing ownership we should create a task that compares external_login_id from external_users_table with original_author_id in issues/comments. Then change the poster_id of the issue/comment from the user who ran the migration to the local Gitea user who has a matching Github ID (external_login_user.user_id).

At this time we should also NULL the original_author string so the templates show the new Gitea user information and behave as normal.

I think we should offer this in 3 areas:

• After the migration is run we should see if any of the items migrated match an already authenticated user and change the ownership then.

• When somebody uses Github to authenticate we should see if their Github user ID is present in any migrated comments that still have original_author string and change ownership then

• There should also be a simple interface in the admin area to manually input a original_author_id and choose an existing local user to assign the issues/comments too. This would give admin full control over what accounts are linked to what issues/comments and let them also revert any previous ownership change/run the task again if an error occurs.

[lunny]

@mrsdizzie Do you have any plan to work on this?

[mrsdizzie]

@mrsdizzie Do you have any plan to work on this?

I could try if what I said sounds good to you

[lunny]

@mrsdizzie That's good to me.

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[programmerjake]

so, was this the last step before gitea can be migrated from github to gitea?

[lunny]

@programmerjake I think yes. But there is a bug need to be fixed. #8504 . After that, we will begin to migrate to gitea.com.

[guillep2k]

Will we do a test run were we can check things and all after migration for a few days (e.g. testmigration.gitea.com)?

[lunny]

@guillep2k We can migrate gitea to a private repository to test if it works. A subdomain is unnecessary. And if there is no any problem. Then we can archive the old repository on github and then migrate formally.

[6543]

@lunny can you crosline this pr in #1029?

[lunny]

@6543 Done. Thanks!