Overview

Ever add a JIRA ticket id to an Issue or Pull Request and wish it would link directly to the ticket. This GitHub App replaces JIRA IDs in comments with a URL to the JIRA issue. 🎉

End User Instructions

Instructions to configure GitHub.com repositories.

1. Visit jira-link-updater app and grant it access to your repositories.
2. Add a configuration file to each repository to set a path to your JIRA instance.
   • Filename: JIRA_SETTINGS.yaml
   • Example:

   jira_hostname: "https://[SERVERNAME].atlassian.net"
   

3. New Pull Requests and Issue comments with the format [XYZ-123] will be replaced with a hyperlink to the JIRA issue.

GitHub Enterprise Instructions

1. Set up a new GitHub App on your GitHub Enterprise +2.12 instance.
   • Issues permissions - Read and Write
   • Pull requests permissions - Read and Write
   • Subscribe to events
     • Issues
     • Pull request event subscription
     • Issue Comments
2. Host this application on a network that allows traffic to/from the GitHub Enterprise instance. ruby server.rb
3. Install the App and grant it access to your repositories.
4. Add comments to Issues and Pull Requests in the format [XYZ-123] to be replaced with a hyperlink