Best Practices for JIRA config work using dev and prod instances (not OnDemand)?

[Jor Bratko]

Is there a recommended methodology for doing JIRA configuration development on a dev instance and then deploying it on a production instance?

Once we get a set of projects, workflows, issue types, custom fields, etc. to work together, we would like a error-resistant method for moving from our dev instance of JIRA to our production instance of JIRA.

[Timothy · Accepted solution]

Is there a recommended methodology for doing JIRA configuration development on a dev instance and then deploying it on a production instance?

Remember and repeat? Or project import (if the project does not already exist)? Project configurator (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.awnaba.projectconfigurator.projectconfigurator)?

[Jor Bratko]

Wow, I'm surprised this kind of manual work hasn't been significantly improved upon.

Project Configurator is a start, thanks.