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Migration JIRA to Redmine

Added by Heribert Gasparoli over 2 years ago

Hello all
First of all, I have to say that I have never dealt with Ruby and Rails before:
I need to migrate Jira to Redmine. In my attempt with "migrate_jira.rake" the rake always breaks when reading issues:

1. first it reads all users => works fine
2. then it reads the first project => works fine
3. then it reads the first issue => abort

rake aborted!
NoMethodError: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
/home/hga/redmine/lib/tasks/migrate_jira.rake:227:in `retrieve'
/home/hga/redmine/lib/tasks/migrate_jira.rake:79:in `migrate'
/home/hga/redmine/lib/tasks/migrate_jira.rake:575:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/hga/redmine/lib/tasks/migrate_jira.rake:573:in `each'
/home/hga/redmine/lib/tasks/migrate_jira.rake:573:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/hga/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.8/gems/rake-13.0.6/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/home/hga/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.8/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:22:in `eval'
/home/hga/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.6.8/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:22:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => jira_migration:do_all_migrations => jira_migration:migrate_issues
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I hope someone can give me a tip on how to make it work.

Thank you in advance

Hello all

I forgot to say that I work with Redmine 4.2.3 in WLS2 Ubuntu 20.04

ruby 2.6.8p205 (2021-07-07 revision 67951) [x86_64-linux]
Rails 5.2.6


Replies (13)

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Jörg Heyer about 2 years ago

Hello,

do you find a solution for your problem? I am also searching for a way to migrate from Jira to Redmine.

Thank you

Best regards
Joerg

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli about 2 years ago

Yes,but:

My company gave me the task of making it work. A big task. The code size is now more than twice as big.
The individual rakes had to be enlarged. New ones had to be written. A lot of things were missing. For example: the customs fields. The workflows are read in too simplified. The statuses do not correspond to the specifications, etc.

To share my solution, I have to wait for the ok from my company first.

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Jörg Heyer about 2 years ago

Thank you very much for the answer.
In the meantime I have made some progress. I found out that there was data in the JIRA backup through a plug-in, which is why the importer could not handle the backup file.
Furthermore, the users were not assigned to the projects.
Yes the customfields are among other things still a problem, so I am of course very curious whether the release of your company get.

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli about 2 years ago

The users who are not assigned to projects can be fished out in this way:

def self.parse_anonymous_users()
log_ids=[]
$doc.elements.each("entity-engine-xml/AuditChangedValue[@name='Username']") do |node|
delta_to = node.attributes.get_attribute("deltaTo").value if node.attributes.get_attribute("deltaTo")
if !$MIGRATED_USERS_BY_USERNAME[delta_to]
log_id = node.attributes.get_attribute("logId").value if node.attributes.get_attribute("logId")
if log_id
log_ids.push(log_id)
end
end
end
log_ids
end

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Jörg Heyer about 2 years ago

Thank you very much,

How satisfactory was the transition from Jira to Redmine?

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli about 2 years ago

95%

Small corrections to the workflow are still necessary manually.
20 projects, some of them large, migrated within 2 hours. Post-corrections approx. 3 hrs.

Various plug-ins were migrated as custom fields. These do not make sense. Manually deleted in Redmine.

One of the plugins that has been adopted as a custom field is:
Epic Colour:
Description:
The Epic Colour field is for use with Jira software only.

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli about 2 years ago

Hello Jörg Heyer

My boss agrees in principle that we share the "migrate_jira.rake" with you, but he still has a few questions and would like you to contact him.

Could you have a quick chat with him?

Best regards

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Jörg Heyer about 2 years ago

Hello Heribert Gasparoli,

I have sent an e-mail to Mr Uhde, thank you very much.

Best regards
Jörg Heyer

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Alexey Prizov about 2 years ago

Hi, did you get an answer?
I've also written an email.

It would save a ton of time for our team.

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Alex Matveev almost 2 years ago

I have recently moved our company Jira to Redmine, fairly complex (data accumulated > 10 years), ~500 users, ~100 projects, ~100 000 issues.

https://gitlab.com/rk86/redmine-jira-import

It is not simple, multi-step process, if you expect one-click solution - this is not (and I don't believe there could be).
Basically I needed to learn Ruby (to some level) just to be able to handle this task.

I would be glad if it helps anybody.

Regards,
Alex

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli almost 2 years ago

Helo Alex

My boss agrees in principle that we share the "migrate_jira.rake" with you, but he still has a few questions and would like you to contact him.

Could you have a quick chat with him?

Best regards

Heribert

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Alex Matveev almost 2 years ago

Heribert,

Sorry, your comment makes no sense.
All my source code is available on the link I provided, if it helps anybody - great.
No agreement of "sharing" is required.
Neither I need any help from you - our migration is done.

Alex

RE: Migration JIRA to Redmine - Added by Heribert Gasparoli almost 2 years ago

Sorry Alex

I read it wrong. Not quite awake yet.

best regards

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