Attention
Atlassian a annoncé que le Jira Data Center arrivera en fin de vie le 28 mars 2029. Après cette date, les licences et les applications du centre de données expireront et deviendront en lecture seule, laissant l’hébergement en nuage comme seule option possible.
Les équipes du monde entier cherchent des alternatives à Jira, que ce soit en raison de l’évolution des exigences du projet, d’une préférence pour les solutions open source ou de l’augmentation des coûts. Cependant, changer d’outil est souvent plus facile à dire qu’à faire, surtout si une solution de migration transparente n’est pas disponible. This is where the strength of open source and Community-driven development comes into play. A developer recently faced this exact challenge — needing to migrate from Jira to OpenProject but finding no suitable tool. Instead of giving up, he developed his own open source Jira migration tool using the OpenProject API and made it available to others – helping not only himself but the entire open source Community.
“Since I’m a developer, and to a hammer, everything is a nail — I wrote my own migration script.”
Emad Ibrahim, developer of the OpenProject Jira importer
Le défi : Migrer de Jira à OpenProject
Pour de nombreuses équipes, Jira est depuis longtemps l’outil de gestion de projet de prédilection. Dans de nombreux cas, il s’agit simplement d’une habitude et d’un manque de temps pour recommencer. D’autant plus qu’Atlassian continue d’augmenter ses prix et d’enfermer les utilisateurs dans son offre cloud, de plus en plus d’organisations repensent leurs options et recherchent des alternatives open source rentables, dignes de confiance et riches en fonctionnalités.
Cependant, le passage de Jira à OpenProject présente des difficultés :
- Contraintes de temps : les équipes n’ont souvent pas les ressources nécessaires pour migrer manuellement leurs projets.
- Complexité technique : un outil de migration doit être capable de gérer les problèmes, les journaux de travail et les champs personnalisés.
- Lack of ready-made solutions – until now, there was no open source Jira to OpenProject migration tool.
A member of the open source Community developed a solution
In the face of these challenges, a member of the open source Community who wanted to migrate from Jira to OpenProject took action: Developer Emad Ibrahim created his own Python-based migration script to streamline the process – and, in the true spirit of open source, made it available to others. He shared his experience on Hacker News, explaining:
“Migrating thousands of JIRA tasks (projects, comments, attachments, etc.) was a challenge. OpenProject provided an Excel Macro written in Visual Basic, which didn’t work for me. So, I wrote a Python script to automate the migration. In a few hours, I had all our data moved over, and we’ve been happily using OpenProject ever since.”
The open source community quickly took notice of this post. Users quickly recognized the value of this migration tool and expressed their appreciation:
- “This is awesome. JIRA migrations are a massive headache, and the fact that you are providing a working solution as open-source software is solid.”
- “Perfect for people who want to ditch proprietary tools.”
- “I have been thinking about using a tool other than Jira for so long, but since you have already shared your experience, I could use your script and switch to OpenProject.”
[Source: Comments on this reddit post]
This positive response highlights how challenges can be solved together when developers share their solutions and open source them. 💙
Chez OpenProject, nous voulons vous aider à trouver des solutions de migration.
Chez OpenProject, nous voulons soutenir les solutions qui facilitent la migration. De nombreuses équipes souhaitent faire le changement, mais n’ont ni le temps ni les compétences techniques pour le faire. This Community-developed migration tool is a step in the right direction and helps lower the hurdle for those looking to migrate.
Conseil
This story also reminds us of another recent Community success: The GitLab integration for OpenProject. Similar to this migration tool, the GitLab integration also started as a Community initiative before becoming an official OpenProject integration.
Thanks a lot to Emad Ibrahim for open-sourcing your development and helping others migrate, too! It’s really great to see success stories like this in our open source Community and we are very happy to be a part of it.
If you want to use the OpenProject Jira importer, you can find it here on GitHub. Please note that even though we really appreciate this tool, it is a Community-developed tool and not part of the official OpenProject offer, so we cannot provide support related to using it. If you are interested in other OpenProject Community-developed plugins as well as official integrations, see this list in our documentation.
