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
- 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 (mysql is deprecated and no longer maintained )
- 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
According to Alexander Zhovnuvaty the following additional steps are needed to finish the migration
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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);
- The tables to be migrated can be customized changing "def migrate". Commenting blocks of calls excepts parts of the migration.