Question

I would like to migrate all my Bugzilla issues to an Issue Tracker at github.com (Example) (you get an issue tracker per repository).

1) Are there tools out there?

2) How did you do it?

Thanks for any advices, I will write a summary at the end how I finally did it (hopefully not manually!)

Answer 1

You need to export your issues from Bugzilla, and then use the GitHub API to upload the issues into GitHub:

http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/#create-an-issue

(note that the old issue-import through GitHub support channels is discontinued)

This does mean your issue numbers will change, so you might want to append a ‘Bugzilla-Id’ footer to your issue description, so you can use GitHub’s free-text search on issues to find them from the old Bugzilla ids.

As far as exporting your data from Bugzilla goes, I think your options are:

• Bugzilla’s HTML export
• Bugzilla JSON-RPC
• Connecting directly to the bugzilla database

Good luck! If you do write an export script, I’d encourage you to open-source it on GitHub!