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TL;DR: I want to migrate closed issues to Discussions in batch for http://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi.

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I'm trying to migrate the question issues in FastAPI to Discussions.

I've been using issues for questions for a long while before Discussions was available. There are lots of questions in closed issues.

When I try to use the link in the "edit labels" section to "convert issues" to Discussions, it only converts the open issues.

Alternative

I tried checking the REST API and the GraphQL API, and also even checked the browser dev tools to see if there's any undocumented API to migrate each individual issue, but it seems that functionality is baked in the HTML forms.

• I could use a button that allows migrating closed issues in batch.
• I could use any API that allows migrating closed issues in batch.
• I could use any API that allows migrating each individual closed issue.

The only option I have available is to:

• Migrate each closed issue by manually clicking the link in the issue.

This is not feasible for me, as I have to migrate more than 2000 issues.

Additional Problems

There's another problem, although I can work around it.

I think the functionality to convert issues was not expecting something of the size of FastAPI. 😅

When I try to open the dialog to convert questions, the spinner hangs in there, and the browser dev tools show that it triggers a 502 server error:

I could overcome it by labeling question issues with another label in batches, question-migrate) and then clicking the convert issues button for that label, batch by batch.

Still, it seems there's an issue there too, so better to report it as well.