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Why are my Bugzilla Enhancements not being imported as Stories/Improvements?

Daniel McRae_6ozzqv

"Import data from Bugzilla" says:

Every Bugzilla bug becomes a JIRA issue of type 'Bug', with one exception: a Bugzilla issue with severity 'Enhancement' becomes a JIRA issue of type 'Improvement' and priority 'Major'.

However, when I import my project from Bugzilla, all of my Enhancements are imported as Bugs. Why is that? Am I doing something wrong?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Do you have "Improvement" issue type in the project's issue type scheme?

Daniel McRae_6ozzqv

No, I didn't. Odd that it would be part of the Default Issue type Scheme, but not part of the my project's issue type scheme by default (I didn't remove it)...especially when the documentation specifically mentions that Enhancements will be imported as Improvements. Why not include it by default?

Is "Improvement" a standard JIRA issue type or a custom type? I see it included in the Default Issue Type Scheme (making me think it is standard), but when I went to add it to my project, I had to type the full name in as if it were a custom type - it wasn't listed for me to select. What would happen if I misspelled it?

BTW-What is the difference between an Improvement and a Story? Why not just import Bugzilla Enhancements as Stories? Can I configure Jira to import Enhancements as Stories instead of Improvements?

I will run the import again on a new project with the "Improvement" issue type included and see what happens. Thank you.

Daniel McRae_6ozzqv

BTW - My project is a Kanban software development project.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

> Is "Improvement" a standard JIRA issue type or a custom type?

Both! It's created by a couple of the project templates. But not Kanban, which is why you were missing it in there.

You do need to get the spelling right for it when adding it, the Bugzilla importer does match on the full spelling. I don't think the importer can be told to use stories, but if you let it create improvements, you can bulk-edit them later.

There's not a lot of difference between a story and improvement, some of us would argue that they're pretty much the same thing (and quite happily use them interchangeably, or just stick to one of them). You don't have to use them in different ways, but it might be useful to you. Might be useful to have them separate for reporting too.

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