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+# Instruction manual for Infra team
+
+These commands should work by copy-pasting.
+
+## Setup
+
+```
+# clone the repo
+~ $ git clone --single-branch --branch main git@github.com:apache/lucene-jira-archive.git
+
+# move to the tool's directory
+~ $ cd lucene-jira-archive/migration/
+
+# download and unarchive the GitHub importable data (i will upload the tgz)
+migration $ wget https://home.apache.org/~tomoko/github-import-data.tgz
+migration $ tar xzf github-import-data.tgz
+migration $ tree -L 1
+.
+├── README.md
+├── github-import-data
+├── github-import-data.tgz
+├── mappings-data
+├── requirements.txt
+└── src
+
+migration $ ls -1 github-import-data
+GH-LUCENE-1.json
+GH-LUCENE-2.json
+GH-LUCENE-3.json
+...
+
+# set the PAT token to an env variable
+migration $ cp .env.example .env
+migration $ vi .env
+export GITHUB_PAT=<set the personal access token here>
+# other lines don't need to be touched
+
+# set env variables from .env
+migration $ source .env
+
+# setup python virtual env
+# not that the script was tested with python 3.9
+migration $ python -V
+Python 3.9.13
+migration $ python -m venv .venv
+migration $ . .venv/bin/activate
+(.venv) migration $ pip install -r requirements.txt 
+(.venv) migration $ pip freeze
+certifi==2022.6.15
+charset-normalizer==2.0.12
+idna==3.3
+jira2markdown==0.2.1
+pyparsing==2.4.7
+python-dateutil==2.8.2
+requests==2.28.0
+six==1.16.0
+urllib3==1.26.9
+```
+
+## Run the import script
+```
+(.venv) migration $ nohup python src/import_github_issues.py --min 1 --max <will be known> &
+# would take 24 hours
+```
+
+## Output files
+
+The import script outputs two files. Both are important for succeeding steps, please send me back them via any channels (e.g., attach them to the Jira issue).
+
+```
+migration $ ls log/import_github_issues_yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.log
+migration $ ls mappings-data/issue-map.csv
+```
+
+Thank you!
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