ado_workitems_to_github_issues

PowerShell script to migrate Azure DevOps work items to GitHub Issues

Prerequisites

1. Install az devops and github cli where this is running (ie: action or locally; GitHub-hosted runners already have)
2. In GitHub, create a label for EACH work item type that is being migrated (as lower case)
   • ie: "user story", "bug", "task", "feature"
3. Define under what area path you want to migrate
   • You can modify the WIQL if you want to use a different way to migrate work items, such as [TAG] = "migrate"

Things it migrates

1. Title
2. Description (or for a bug, repro steps and/or system info)
3. State (if the work item is done / closed, it will be closed in GitHub)
4. It will try to assign the work item to the correct user in GitHub - based on ADO email before the @
   • This uses the -gh_update_assigned_to and -gh_assigned_to_user_suffix options
   • Users have to be added to GitHub org
5. Migrate acceptance criteria as part of issue body (if present)
6. Adds in the following as a comment to the issue:
   • Original work item url
   • Basic details in a collapsed markdown table
   • Entire work item as JSON in a collapsed section
7. Creates tag "copied-to-github" and a comment on the ADO work item with -$ado_production_run". The tag prevents duplicate copying.

To Do

1. Provide user mapping option

Things it won't ever migrate

1. Created date/update dates

Example

• Screenshot
• Migrated GitHub Issue

Instructions for Running in Actions

The recommendation is to use a GitHub App to run the migration - a GitHub app has higher rate limits than using a user PAT.

1. Create a (classic) GitHub personal access token with at least the following scopes:
   • repo (all scopes here)
   • read:org
2. Create the following action secrets:
   • ADO_PAT: Azure DevOps PAT with appropriate permissions to read work items
   • GH_PAT: The value of the PAT created in step #1
3. Use the action
4. Update any defaults in the action (ie: Azure DevOps organization and project, GitHub organization, repo, and any other defaults you want changed)
5. Ensure the action exists in the repo's default branch
6. Run the workflow

Instructions for Running Locally

Using the GitHub app might be better so you don't reach a limit on your GitHub account on creating new issues 😀

./ado_workitems_to_github_issues.ps1 `
    -ado_pat "abc" `
    -ado_org "jjohanning0798" `
    -ado_project "PartsUnlimited" `
    -ado_area_path "PartsUnlimited\migrate" `
    -ado_migrate_closed_workitems `
    -ado_production_run # IMPORTANT - USING THIS WILL UPDATE THE WORK ITEM IN ADO!`
    -gh_pat "ghp_xxx" `
    -gh_org "joshjohanning-org" `
    -gh_repo "migrate-ado-workitems" `
    -gh_update_assigned_to `
    -gh_assigned_to_user_suffix "" `
    -gh_add_ado_comments

Script Options

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
-ado_pat	Yes		Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) with appropriate permissions to read work items (and update, with -ado_production_run)
-ado_org	Yes		Azure DevOps organization to migrate from
-ado_project	Yes		Azure DevOps project to migrate from
-ado_area_path	Yes		Azure DevOps area path to migrate from - uses the UNDER operator
-ado_migrate_closed_workitems	No	$false	Switch to migrate closed/resoled/done/removed work items
-ado_production_run	No	$false	Switch to add copied-to-github tag and comment on ADO work item
-gh_pat	Yes		GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) with appropriate permissions to read/write issues
-gh_org	Yes		GitHub organization to migrate work items to
-gh_repo	Yes		GitHub repo to migrate work items to
-gh_update_assigned_to	No	$false	Switch to update the GitHub issue's assignee based on the username portion of an email address (before the @ sign)
-gh_assigned_to_user_suffix	No	""	Used in conjunction with -gh_update_assigned_to, used to suffix the username, e.g. if using GitHub Enterprise Managed User (EMU) instance
-gh_add_ado_comments	No	$false	Switch to add ADO comments as a section with the migrated work item

Note: With -gh_update_assigned_to, you/your users will receive a lot of emails from GitHub when the user is assigned to the issue