diff --git a/maintainers/issue_import.py b/maintainers/issue_import.py
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+import requests
+import textwrap
+import dataclasses
+import logging
+import re
+import os
+
+API_BASE = 'https://git.lix.systems/api/v1'
+API_KEY = os.environ['FORGEJO_API_KEY']
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+log.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+fmt = logging.Formatter('{asctime} {levelname} {name}: {message}',
+                        datefmt='%b %d %H:%M:%S',
+                        style='{')
+
+if not any(isinstance(h, logging.StreamHandler) for h in log.handlers):
+    hand = logging.StreamHandler()
+    hand.setFormatter(fmt)
+    log.addHandler(hand)
+
+# These are erring in the direction of re-triage, rather than necessarily
+# mapping all metadata of the issue
+LABEL_MAPPING = {
+    'lix-import': 153, # 'imported',
+    'contributor-experience': 148, # 'devx',
+    'bug': 150, # 'bug',
+    'UX': 149, # 'ux',
+    'error-messages': 149, # 'ux',
+    'lix-stability': 146, # 'stability',
+    'performance': 147, # 'performance',
+    'tests': 121, # 'tests',
+}
+
+def api(method, endpoint: str, resp_json=True, **kwargs):
+    log.info('http %s %s', method, endpoint)
+    if not endpoint.startswith('https'):
+        endpoint = API_BASE + endpoint
+    resp = requests.request(method,
+                            endpoint,
+                            headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {API_KEY}'},
+                            **kwargs)
+    resp.raise_for_status()
+    if resp_json:
+        return resp.json()
+    else:
+        return resp
+
+def paginate(method: str, url: str):
+    while True:
+        resp = api(method, url, resp_json=False)
+        yield from resp.json()
+        next_one = resp.links.get('next')
+        if not next_one:
+            return
+        url = next_one.get('url')
+        if not url:
+            return
+
+class DataClassUnpack:
+    """Taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72164665"""
+    classFieldCache = {}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def instantiate(cls, classToInstantiate, argDict):
+        if classToInstantiate not in cls.classFieldCache:
+            cls.classFieldCache[classToInstantiate] = {
+                f.name
+                for f in getattr(classToInstantiate, dataclasses._FIELDS).values() if f._field_type is not dataclasses._FIELD_CLASSVAR # type: ignore
+            }
+
+        fieldSet = cls.classFieldCache[classToInstantiate]
+        filteredArgDict = {k: v for k, v in argDict.items() if k in fieldSet}
+        return classToInstantiate(**filteredArgDict)
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Label:
+    name: str
+    description: str
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Issue:
+    number: int
+    url: str
+    html_url: str
+    title: str
+    body: str
+    labels: dataclasses.InitVar[list[dict]]
+    labels_clean: list[Label] = dataclasses.field(init=False)
+
+    def __post_init__(self, labels):
+        self.labels_clean = [DataClassUnpack.instantiate(Label, l) for l in labels]
+
+def issues_to_import():
+    yield from paginate('GET', '/repos/nixos/nix/issues?state=open&labels=lix-import')
+
+def issues_already_imported():
+    yield from paginate('GET', '/repos/lix-project/lix/issues?state=open&labels=imported')
+
+
+UPSTREAM_ISSUE_RE = re.compile(r'^Upstream-Issue: https://git\.lix\.systems/NixOS/nix/issues/(\d+)$', re.MULTILINE)
+
+def make_already_imported():
+    d = {}
+    for issue in issues_already_imported():
+        iss = DataClassUnpack.instantiate(Issue, issue)
+        print(iss)
+        match = UPSTREAM_ISSUE_RE.search(iss.body)
+        if match:
+            d[int(match.group(1))] = iss
+
+    return d
+
+def new_issue(title, body, labels):
+    api('POST', '/repos/lix-project/lix/issues', resp_json=True, json={
+        'labels': labels,
+        'body': body,
+        'title': title,
+    })
+
+already_imported = make_already_imported()
+
+def import_issue(iss: Issue):
+    if iss.number in already_imported:
+        log.info('Skipping already imported %d', iss.number)
+        return
+    new_body = textwrap.dedent('''
+        Upstream-Issue: {iss}
+
+        {original_body}
+    ''').format(iss=iss.html_url, original_body=iss.body)
+
+    new_labels = [LABEL_MAPPING[l.name] for l in iss.labels_clean if l.name in LABEL_MAPPING]
+
+    new_title = '[Nix#{num}] {title}'.format(num=iss.number, title=iss.title)
+
+    log.info('%s', f'create issue with: {new_labels} {new_title} {new_body}')
+    new_issue(new_title, new_body, new_labels)
+
+def go():
+    print('Have you turned off the forgejo mailer or limited the queue workers to 0 (assuming that works)? Enter "We have" if so:')
+    answer = input('> ')
+    if answer != 'We have':
+        return
+
+    log.info('Importing issues!')
+    for issue in issues_to_import():
+        import_issue(DataClassUnpack.instantiate(Issue, issue))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    go()