Perl script to sync individual projects to another Redmine instance.

h2. Status

My current goal is to synchronize one isolated project, which only has Wiki pages and attachments, from one Redmine instance to another. In the end, this project shall only be used on the destination instance. This is more complicated than initially assumed, but still leaves out the rather hairy problem of migrating issues or even issue numbers and whatever embedded in Wiki text.

• Right now, migrating stuff that are related to users work.
• Wiki migration seems to work now too.
• Migrating attachments (using rsync'ed backup files) now work too.
• Migrating watchers works.

The next step: Maybe I should reconsider the core synchronization code, but this will have to wait until the migration job at hand is completed.

h2. Notes

h3. Perl

Why Perl? I'm not fluent enough in Ruby to even consider it as the tool of choice for this problem. The script directly talks with the MySQL databases of the Redmine instances, it basically ignores the API.

h3. To be improved

The project's entry in 'wikis' whould be added to syncs by hand since Redmine creates the Wiki but the script currently doesn't check for that, it only looks at the syncs table.

Also, the pre-configured trackers and roles need to be considered.

h2. TODOs