Ability to display Github issues in Jira

[Leksat]

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Basically, the same list as it's currently exist for PRs, branches and commits. But for issues.

[Leksat]

I can make a PR, if this feature has chances to be accepted.

[dchitiva-ccracks]

Our commits were not showing in Jira from the past day or so.

[EN255]

Has this been resolved?

[rachellerathbone]

Hi @Leksat. I'm from a team at Atlassian that is currently in the process of migrating the ownership over to us from GitHub. As a part of this, we're currently going through the backlog of issues and prs to see what can still be addressed and what should be closed.

I've flagged this with the 'to triage' label so my team can discuss. We'll keep you posted on the status of this.

[rachellerathbone]

Hey @Leksat. Just need some clarification: are you proposing, if there is a Jira issue key e.g. ARC-123 referenced in a GitHub issue (title &/or body?) that a link to the GitHub issue/s would be visible in the Jira dev panel?

So here we'd see 'X GitHub issues'

And here we'd see a 'GitHub issues' tab?

The main problem I see with this is that the Jira dev panel is a component that serves multiple providers - not just GitHub - and is essentially 'dumb' in the respect that it just pulls in data from each provider and renders it. There's very little logic and there is no conditional logic to say 'if this provider, add this extra link/tab'. I can run this by the team that owns the dev panel but my guess is they won't be able to implement this request as it breaks the existing patterns in that component.

[Leksat]

@rachellerathbone yes, exactly!

Something like this:

We really want this feature because developers love Github and PMs/clients love Jira. If it's implemented, developers can create multiple issues for Jira tickets and there discuss technical details using all the cool Github features. While Jira will be used for communicating with client, planning, billing, etc.

As for the implementation issues, maybe it's possible to change the logic a bit?

- if this provider, add this extra link/tab
+ add this link/tab if this provider supports it

(Just look at this beauty ^ Can I embed a diff like this in Jira? No! Can I drag'n'drop an image to a comment in Jira? Well, maybe, but Github does it in much nicer way. Please let developers use Github 🙏 😅 )

[rachellerathbone]

Hi @Leksat. I was able to chat with some folks from various Jira teams and found out that there was an "Other links" tab in the dev detail dialog that was introduced last year. Current problem is, are all hardcoded, but should be easy to extend. Just need to wait now for these to be triaged by our PM. I'll keep you posted.

[fharper]

Any news on that? I basically want to use JIRA to manage my GitHub issues. Now seems like I would need to use Zapier to import them into JIRA, and close them on JIRA when closed on GitHub if I don't want people to add JIRA tags.

[galmeida12]

What's the current state of this? Given the current support and documentation of Github issues synchronization with Jira issues, and given that this has been requested multiple times so far, it's taking a long time to update.

Any news regarding Github issues sync are much appreciated.

[douglasg14b]

With Jira being a product focused tool & Github issues being far more developer friendly. A feature like this is sorely needed, so devs can track work where it works best for them, and where they have useful features & configuration for them (Github) and product knows, generally, what's happening (Jira)