This is now fixed -- the default jira REST format does not include newlines. I'm now using the HTML format, which is converted back to markdown-ish plain text.

 

Currently, only bugs with status status in (Open, "In Progress", Reopened, "In Review", Assigned, "Waiting for customer") are converted; If you think it's useful, I can also convert the closed bugs, and also close them on Bugzilla. Doing a full status-status mapping is not on my to-do-list.

The code I use is available here: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/?r=pywikibot/sf-export.git .

If you want to test on a local bugzilla: I downloaded a VM from http://www.turnkeylinux.org/bugzilla ; I had to run /var/www/bugzilla/install-module.pl to get the xml-rpc api working.

Merlijn