[rt-devel] Wreq 2.7 -> RT 3 conversion

[Rich West]

You can find the original source for req2rt at 
http://www.wesmo.com/~rwest/rt/req2rt.tar

I haven't supported it in years.. It only supports migrating tickets 
from REQ to RT v1.x (or prior).

Usually it is difficult to migrate from one tracking system to another 
due to the extreme differences in the database formats and structures, 
and it required a GOOD understanding of BOTH database formats and 
structures in order to have a good and clean migration.  Usually, the 
focus is more on internally developing the application rather than 
reverse engineering other applications...

Unfortunately, that leaves the development of migration utilities to the 
community...

-Rich


Martin C. Messer wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've searched and found several references to utilities like req2rt and
> reqtort, but only found the source for one:
>
> http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~nmcgroga/rt/reqtort
>
> Is this considered the current "best practice" for converting wreq
> tickets to into RT? I don't see any official instructions for converting
> other tracking system data into RT, so I assume that using scripts like
> reqtort is the only option.
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>  
>