Attributing issues and comments when migrating from Jira

[rok]

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Hi all,

At Apache Arrow we're migrating from ASF's issue tracker to GitHub issues.
We have a good mapping of usernames between the two systems and would like to assign the issues to correct users when migrating if possible. We noticed Python migrated recently by creating Mannequin users. Is this something we could use as well or would we require an enterprise account?
We did notice mannequin users are documented in the grapql API, but there seems to be no way to create them with the API.

Which way would be best for us to pursue?

Best,
Rok

[fellipetav]

I have the same issue.

[rok]

For the record: we migrated using this script. Migrated issues can be seen here.

[fellipetav]

I'm studying to migrate from GitLab to Github. I found this script https://github.com/piceaTech/node-gitlab-2-github . I'm preparing a "Dockerized" approach since I don't wanna install new environments in my machine.

Thanks for your reply. I'm gonna take a look on that script you gave me above.

[rok]

Got it!

[fellipetav]

I would like to get you updated about my tests. I did not find anything to help on how to use mannequins for absent (on github side) users. I did use the mentioned NodeJs script. I also tried to map all non-existent Github users as "gitlabusers_ghost" and I assured this user does not exist on Github. However all issues containing this absent user weren't migrated and the script made those "placeholders".

[rok]

I'm not sure what a "placeholder" is. Could you give an example of such issue?

[fellipetav]

Palceholders work as "replacement" issues containing only the enough information to track which was the original issue.

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