jirabot 🤖

Summary

jirabot builds on top of go-jira to provide a way of automating useful JIRA workflows for use-cases that no official tooling currently targets, or at least not with the same granularity of a turing-complete language (since JIRA ScriptRunner has pre-defined constructs and relies heavily on JQL).

Philosophy

There's some guidelines that the bot aims to adhere by, these are:

• Don't overlap actions with other team's automation workflows.
• Don't make any changes to issues themselves, only propose them (since rolling back would be very cumbersome).

Workflow

The bot currently supports the following workflows:

Verifying states for JIRA issues corresponding to an upstream PR

This workflow consists of the following steps:

Important

The desired initial state for a JIRA issue, from the perspective of the bot, is the same for two PRs that are closed and merged, as the bot avoids making "hard-edits", such as closing JIRA issues if the corresponding PR is in a closed or merged state.

• Gather "all" upstream JIRA issues in a project using a JQL query (PROJECT_UPSTREAM_ISSUES_JQL_FILTER).
• For each issue,
  • get the corresponding PRs from the "Git Pull Request" field;
  • for each linked PR,
    • validate if it is indeed upstream;
    • record the current state of the PR, and,
    • record the appropriate state for the JIRA issue based on each PR state.
  • Finally, resolve various observed states from different PRs under the JIRA issue to determine the final state, and,
  • match it against the JIRA issue's current state.
• If the PR state does not match the JIRA issue's state, log the proposed diff (instead of transitioning the JIRA issue; commented out for demo purposes at the moment).

Flags

Currently, the bot supports the following flags:

• --timeout: The timeout for the bot to wait for all operations to complete. Defaults to 5 minutes.

Overrides

Currently, the bot supports the following overrides:

• PROJECT_UPSTREAM_ISSUES_JQL_FILTER: The JQL query used to gather "all" upstream issues and for the overall scope for the bot to operate on. Defaults to the monitoring team's DEFAULT_MON_PROJECT_UPSTREAM_ISSUES_JQL_FILTER.
• PROJECT_INITIAL_STATE: The initial ticket status in a particular project at the time of its creation. Defaults to To Do.
• PROJECT_INTERMEDIATE_STATE: The intermediate ticket status in a particular project before it is up for review. Defaults to In Progress.
• PROJECT_FINAL_STATE: The final ticket status in a particular project before it is closed. Defaults to Code Review.

License