Jira test and production

epohl

This is probably a stupid question...

We are gearing up to implement Jira in our organization. We will have a test instance, where can can set things up and test ideas, and later test upgrades.

We will then have a production instance, which our customers will have access to.

Is there an easy way to synch these instances?

We don't want all the users in the test instance, but all the other settings should be the same. And it would be nice to be able to push changes from test to production.

Is this possible?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No. There's no decent "sync" other than "take a copy of live and whack it into test wholesale, killing off what was there before".

There is a project import that will take issues from a backup of live and enable you to add them to test, but only if test is configured the same as live (for that project)

Similarly, there's little you can do to "push changes from test to production" other than manually copy them (although there is a workflow export/import).