Bif Frequently Asked Questions

General

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Not so General

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Anything related to bif of course.

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Bif Deployment Models

How does my organisation work with a downstream/upstream project?

Say for example there are two organisations: downstream and upstream. The downstream project manager might want to send a bifhub link request to the upstream hub asking for collaboration permission:

#!sh
# Downstream project manager
bifhub link downstream upstream.org@provider.com [upstream]

If upstream agrees to link with your project, their project manager will link back, reversing the arguments:

#!sh
# Upstream project manager
bifhub link upstream downstream.org@provider.com downstream

Bif doesn't actually make a distinction between upstream/downstream so the two examples above could occur in reverse (chronological) order if upstream decided to work with downstream first.

When the users of either project next perform a bif sync, the list of projects from the other project will be imported. You can view them using the "bif list projects" command:

#!sh
bif list projects upstream
# Hub       Project  Title
# -------------------------------------
# upstream  stable   The stable project
# upstream  devel    The devel project

Note that these are shallow imports, in that only the projects and their status types are copied, and not their issues and/or tasks. Afterwards, downstream can push issues upstream like so:

#!sh
# Downstream project user
bif push 34 project upstream

Be aware that this is a two way collaboration - upstream can also push issues downstream if they wish! I'll leave it up to the reader to think of the use cases for that.