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| Migrating From Other Bug-Tracking Systems |
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| Bugzilla has a framework you can use for migrating from other bug-tracking |
| systems - |
| `Bugzilla::Migrate <http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/api/Bugzilla/Migrate.html>`_. |
| It provides the infrastructure you will need, |
| but requires a module to be written to define the specifics of the system you |
| are coming from. One exists for |
| `Gnats <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/>`_. If you write one for a |
| popular system, please share your code with us. |
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| Alternatively, Bugzilla comes with a script, :file:`importxml.pl`, which |
| imports bugs in Bugzilla's XML format. You can see examples of this format |
| by clicking the :guilabel:`XML` link at the bottom of a bug in a running |
| Bugzilla. You would need to read the script to see how it handles errors, |
| default values, creating non-existing values and so on. |
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| Bugzilla::Migrate is preferred if possible. |
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