Jira v3 API integration issues

[jfoote]

Hello,

I recently integrated a clusterfuzz deployment with an Atlassian Cloud Jira instance. Here are some issues I ran into:

• The clusterfuzz documentation does not describe how to integrate with Jira.
  • E.g., the relationships between clusterfuzz project name, ISSUE_TRACKER Job env var, and Jira project name are unclear
• There are several incompatibilities between the clusterfuzz Jira integration implementation and the Jira REST v3 API
  • password-based authentication is no longer supported
  • clusterfuzz uses an integer-type project ID, whereas Jira uses a string-type project ID
  • Jira users are no longer identified via the 'name' field
  • Various other incompatibilities
• The secret used to authenticate with the Jira API is reflected in cleartext in the clusterfuzz UI

I was able to integrate the clusterfuzz deployment with Jira via some bespoke patching. But, I didn't address all the issues with synchronization and my code is generally unsuitable for contribution unfortunately. I wanted to share this information FYI and for any others that might attempt to integrate with Jira.

Thanks, Jon

[oliverchang]

Thanks for the super helpful pointers to the issues!

@bhatkishor FYI who contributed the initial support for this. We'd be very happy to help review any contributions to help make Jira V3 easier to use for you.