From 260d1e6af5dbe6f66270c7844e54ec20f4007dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Douglas Barbosa Alexandre Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:57:04 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update GitHub importer documentation to reflect current importer state --- doc/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.md b/doc/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.md index 370d885d366..dd33513d9e3 100644 --- a/doc/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.md +++ b/doc/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.md @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ The importer will create any new namespaces if they don't exist or in the case the namespace is taken, the project will be imported on the user's namespace. +### Note + +When we are importing Issues/Pull Requests we try to find the original +author or assignee using the Github Id, but for this to work the original +author or assignee should had signed in before on the GitLab instance and +associated their GitHub account. If we don’t find the user in our database +we set the project creator (most of the times the current user that started +the import process) as the author but we keep a reference on the issue +about the original author. + [gh-import]: ../../integration/github.md "GitHub integration" [ee-gh]: http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/github.html "GitHub integration for GitLab EE" [new-project]: ../../gitlab-basics/create-project.md "How to create a new project in GitLab"