I just convinced my company to migrated from BugZilla to FogBugz On Demand, the hosted version of Fog Creek Software’s case tracking tool, FogBugz. FogBugz is a vastly better tool, but that’s a post for another time.

When you buy FogBugz and host it yourself, it comes with a little script to import bugs from BugZilla, but for some reason the hosted version doesn’t support this, and Fog Creek want $2500 to do a custom migration. “To hell with that”, I thought to myself, and whipped up a Ruby migration script that uses the XML export feature of BugZilla to get the bugs out, and the FogBugz API 4.0 to get them in.

The script is written for my specific needs, and thus isn’t necessarily appropriate for anyone else, but it got the job done for me. The code is in my private SVN repository here, which you can browse via WebSVN here.