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bz2redmine

bz2redmine is a script to convert your existing bugzilla database to a redmine database.

Bugzilla is a popular Bugtracking-System.

Redmine is a increaingly popular bugtracking system as well. Compared with Bugzilla,Redmine has a couple of unique features.

Parts of the script (especially many of the SQL-statements) are based on the bz2redmine.php-Script by Robert Heath. See the CREDITS file for details.

You can find Bugzilla here: http://www.bugzilla.org

You can find Redmine here: http://www.redmine.org

Features

  • Preserves the Bugzilla bug numbers
  • Converts most of the existing Bugzilla data including attachments
  • Has been successfully used to convert a Bugzilla 4.2.1 to Redmine 3.3
  • This fork uses the new mysql2 Driver to provide performance. (mysql is deprecated and no longer maintained )

Usage

  • Backup your Databases and your existing redmine installation. The script will delete all of the data of your existing redmine installation.
  • If you are working on a new installation of redmine make shure you ran "rake redmine:load_default_data"
  • Copy the settings.rb.example file to settings.rb and modify the settings to match your needs.
  • run the script

Aditional Steps

According to Alexander Zhovnuvaty the following additional steps are needed to finish the migration

  • Grant administrator permissions to certain users. In this particular case for users with 1, 13 ids;

    update users set admin = true where id in (1, 13);

Special Usage

  • The tables to be migrated can be customized changing "def migrate". Commenting blocks of calls excepts parts of the migration.

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