I'm planning to migrate from another bug tracking tool (cvstrac) to OpenProject. Currently I'm developing a migration tool using the OpenProject v3 API.

Of course I want the ticket/workpackage numbers from the old system to remain the same in OpenProject (other resources in the enterprise are referring to these numbers).

How can I accomplish this? Any general ideas or thoughts about the migration process?

Thanks for your advice!

Hello,

What have you done for this process?

I ended up with the following process:

• First generate as many dummy workpackages via the API as there are tickets in the old bug tracking tool.
• Updating the dummy workpackages via the API with the data from the old bug tracking tool. E.g. setting the data from old ticket XY in the workpackage XY.
• During the update of the workpackages I also generate SQL statements which can be run directly on the OpenProject mysql database to set the author and the creation date of the workpackages. Thus I don't loose the original history.

Hope this helps.