Is there a way to import Jira issues to GitHub?

Question

I've tried exporting issues from both GitHub and Jira to CSV files, but I've never tried exporting Jira issue then importing it to GitHub, is this possible? If so, what would be the best way to approach something like this?

Answer 1

There is simply not a "Import issues from JIRA" feature in GitHub.

The way I see it you have two options, either to integrate your current JIRA instance with GitHub or migrate the JIRA issues into GitHub issues using your own criteria and migration script.

GitHub and JIRA Integration

I would very much like to add all the instructions here but it's one of those cases where a link to the documentation makes much more sense.

There's also a video on youtube which is quite short and easy to follow.

Migrating JIRA issues into GitHub Issues

In order to do this you would have to write your own script that reads issues from the JIRA REST API and creates new ones using GitHub Issues REST API.

Note that JIRA and GitHub issues are different in nature, so your script would have to choose how to migrate one type of issue to another.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Another way is to export the JIRA issues as XML file. The following project provides Python 2 scripts to import such a file into a GitHub project via its REST API: https://github.com/hbrands/jira-issues-importer

Besides issues with comments, it imports milestones, labels and components as labels. References to issues in comments are to some degree converted. Also, JIRA relationships like "blocks" and "depends on" are migrated to special issue comments in GitHub.

It avoids the problem of running into abuse rate limits by using a special Issue Import API.

Please read the sections about the features, caveats, assumptions and prerequisites on the project site. Be sure to test the issue migration with a GitHub test project first.