Redmine

I have a copy of migrate_from_trac.rake in a Github fork, where I am preserving the patches:

https://github.com/rodrigc/redmine/blob/master/lib/tasks/migrate_from_trac.rake

Hopefully my patches can be incorporated into Redmine, so that I don't have to keep my own
private copy. This will benefit others who are trying to migrate to Redmine from Trac.

I used these patches to migrate about 3000 Trac tickets to Redmine. See:

FreeNAS project migration from Trac to Redmine

Craig, could you please have a look at #14844? Would be great if this could be fixed in this patch. Shouldn't be too hard but I have no Ruby experience else I would do it on my own.

Marc,

I'll see what I can do, but can't promise anything. My main reasons for fixing the
migrate_from_trac.rake script to do the following:

FreeNAS project migration from Trac to Redmine

However, since I have finished that, I can't devote a lot more time to Remdmine, but I will try if I have time.

I would encourage you to take a whack at learning Ruby and trying to fix this script.
I didn't know Ruby before fixing migrate_from_trac.rake but I learned enough to get going.
The code in Redmine is very clean, so it is easy to pick up.

The code in Redmine which accesses the database is part of the ActiveRecord class in Rails. ActiveRecord
has an API for doing transactions:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Transactions.html

Give it a shot and see if you can get something working, and I can review it.