PRs not displaying in Jira

[nterbogt]

Came across an issue where a PR wouldn't display in Jira.

The PR was created with the github-actions bot as the author and wouldn't be detected. If a real user commented on the PR, it would show up. If a real user changed the status, it would show up. etc etc.

Changing the author of the PR to a real user fixed the issue. We did this by not using ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} in the action and changing that to a custom token for a real user.

It should really just work... however and whoever creates the PR.

[mat007]

I think I just hit the same issue.
Here is probably the cause for this:

    if (context.payload.sender.type === 'Bot') {
      context.log({ noop: 'bot', botId: context.payload.sender.id, botLogin: context.payload.sender.login }, 'Halting futher execution since the sender is a bot');
      return;
    }

That’s in https://github.com/integrations/jira/blob/master/lib/github/middleware.js#L63

I don’t understand why a bot should be handled differently than a regular user?

[VolodymyrFesenko]

This also results in a PR status update not being reported back to Jira if Bot merges the PR. Jira shows the linked PR as open even though it has been merged.

[atrigueiro]

Hi all,

We've fixed this bug and it's out in prod! #437