Scripts for migrating bug reporting from Launchpad to JIRA

About two and a half years ago I wrote about how the MariaDB project moved bug reporting from Launchpad to JIRA. Every now and then I get contacted about how it was done and whether I would be willing to share the tools used for doing it and of course I’ve done that. Especially in one occasion the scripts were even further developed by one company that was in the process of doing exactly the same, i.e. moving bugs from Launchpad to JIRA. Thanks for the enhancements Philip Colmer from Linaro!

In Launchpad there isn’t a readymade tool for exporting bugs and I didn’t find any 3rd party tools for doing it. …