Modify creation date of bugs imported using REST interface

Yannick Morin-R2

We are thinking of moving all our bugtracking tools to the atlassian suite. I am currently playing around with importing our bugdatabse ( bugtracker.net) to Jira. We have around 17000 bugs (including closed and opened bugs) and we wish to convert the complete worklog of the bugs (original creation date for bugs and comments, status changes, original author). I have tries using the both the REST and the SOAP interface to populate a Jira issue with all those info, but it seems that a lot of them are read only.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a way to import our database easily keeping all those informations?

Wojciech Seliga

Hey,

Currently JIRA remote APIs do not support storing historical data (past comments, worklog transitions or field changes). Actually JIRA API (on the server side) does not really support it storing such info (except for comments and worklogs). Currently you would have to store data to JIRA DB directly (taking care by yourself of data consistency, integrity and all the relations). It's not an easy thing.

Good news is that we are working on it at the moment and soon (no concrete dates or commitments though) there should be an easier way to import to JIRA historical data too.

If you have a budget for this transition, then I am sure that some of Atlassian Experts (aka Partners) can help you transition your issues using such low level DB approach (where API is not really helpful).

Cheers,

Wojtek