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GitLab Migration - Migrate Project Members

Proposed Solution

  • For each migrated project, add the project members if they exist in the parent group.
  • Match users by email.
  • Match the users to the existing objects in the project (issues, comments, etc.).
  • If a user doesn't exist, assign the importer user instead and add a note (similar to project imports).
  • Allow more relaxed user matching when the contributor already belongs to the (parent) group, as proposed here for Project Import. (This would allow non-admins on GitLab.com to migrate projects and not have the importer user be the author for everything) *

Additional detail

* To further clarify the proposal to allow a more relaxed user matching when the contributor already belongs to the (parent) group, which would allow non-admins on GitLab.com to migrate projects and not have the importer user be the author for everything, these would be the required conditions for this use-case:

  • importing into a group namespace (not user namespace), and
  • importing user is an owner/maintainer within (sub)group (should be tied to project creation option - which can include developer), and
  • contributor is a member of the group

Note: if the above conditions are not met, or any of the following conditions are true, the contributions will still be associated with the importing user:

  • user does not exist, or
  • email associated with user in the source instance does not match the primary email of any user, or
  • user exists but is not a member of the group

Documentation

Following documentation should be updated with the objects/fields added in this issue:

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Edited by Haris Delalić