Importing ticket data

Bugzilla

Ticket data can be imported from Bugzilla using the bugzilla2trac.py script, available in the contrib/ directory of the Trac distribution.

$ bugzilla2trac.py
bugzilla2trac - Imports a bug database from Bugzilla into Trac.
Usage: bugzilla2trac.py [options]
Available Options:
  --db <MySQL dbname>              - Bugzilla's database
  --tracenv /path/to/trac/env      - full path to Trac db environment
  -h | --host <MySQL hostname>     - Bugzilla's DNS host name
  -u | --user <MySQL username>     - effective Bugzilla's database user
  -p | --passwd <MySQL password>   - Bugzilla's user password
  -c | --clean                     - remove current Trac tickets before importing
  --help | help                    - this help info
Additional configuration options can be defined directly in the script.

Currently, the following data is imported from Bugzilla:

  • bugs
  • bug activity (field changes)
  • bug attachments

The script provides a number of features to ease the conversion, such as:

  • PRODUCT_KEYWORDS: Trac doesn’t have the concept of products, so the script provides the ability to attach a ticket keyword instead.
  • IGNORE_COMMENTS: Don’t import Bugzilla comments that match a certain regexp.
  • STATUS_KEYWORDS: Attach ticket keywords for the Bugzilla statuses not available in Trac. By default, the ‘VERIFIED’ and ‘RELEASED’ Bugzilla statuses are translated into Trac keywords.

For more details on the available options, see the configuration section at the top of the script.

Sourceforge

Ticket data can be imported from Sourceforge using the sourceforge2trac.py script, available in the contrib/ directory of the Trac distribution.