On 2 Apr 2013, at 16:17, Kevin Minder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tony, > Discussion inline below. > Thanks! > Kevin. > > On 4/2/13 11:05 AM, Tony Stevenson wrote: >> Kevin, >> >> There are several big painful gotchas to be aware of here. >> >> - If we import, and you already have a JIRA project they will be tagged on >> the end of your current issues, and not in the number order you might >> expect. >> > I'm not concerned about the imported issues being assigned new numbers. >> >> - The project KEY you export from cannot be the same as you import into, >> this will cause overwriting or a failed import. >> > These will be coming from issues with keys like BUG-NNNN and I assume they > will be imported with keys like KNOX-NNNN right? This is fine. >> >> - Attachments must be provided at the time of the initial import >> > I don't think we have any attachments so this should be fine. >> >> - The version from which you export must be exactly the same version we >> import into (double check this before shipping us anything, please). >> > Apache: Atlassian JIRA (v5.2.8#851-sha1:3262fdc) > Hortonworks: JIRA > (6.0-OD-09-3#6060-sha1:a4642c9a73ee448a9294273e0bad12d9670c7015) > > I guess this is a deal breaker? I was assuming that we would use XML as the > interchange format. So you are saying that an XML export from 6.0 can't be > imported into 5.2.8? Correct, v6 OD is their on demand service. We have never done this, and the JIRA importer will barf if the versions are not identical. You might be able to to as Atlassian, or export in another format, but we have not done of ore those before and we may discover new gotchas along the way. >> >> Tony >> >> >> On 2 Apr 2013, at 14:34, Kevin Minder >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm a committer on the Knox podling project. We are discussing possibly >>> trying to do a bulk import of the exting Jira issues in an external Jira >>> system. I can see how to export them from the external system but it looks >>> like I don't have the privs equired to do an import. Is this even >>> possible? If so, what is the processes? >>> Kevin. >>> >> >> Cheers, >> Tony >> >> ---------------------------------- >> Tony Stevenson >> >> >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> http://www.pc-tony.com >> >> >> GPG - 1024D/51047D66 >> ---------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Cheers, Tony ---------------------------------- Tony Stevenson [email protected] [email protected] http://www.pc-tony.com GPG - 1024D/51047D66 ----------------------------------
