Detect issues from commit messages

[vajahath]

Opening discussion on Issue tracking

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requirement

We need the following things to create a new activity:

• Project ID ✅ done
• Issue ID 👈 current focus 🎯
• Start time ⚠️ pending
• End time ⚠️ pending
• Message ✅ done

Currently auto-timesheet fetches git-commit-messages from Github and use it as the message for timesheet activity. We need to somehow extract the issue id from commit messages.

Proposal

Just a proposal to start thinking..

Lets use ti#tags with commit messages. While making a commit message, mention the timesheet issue with a hashtag like:

Adds extra details to fetch details api. ti#fetchDetails

(where fetchDetails is the timesheet issue corresponding to our commit)

We can extract that ti# tag and find that issue-id.

How to detect issue-id from extracted tags?

Looks like timesheet uses an api to fetch all issues (description and id) corresponding to a project. We call that api and get those data. Now we've to match our hashtag with the issue description to get the id.

Why ti# ?

Github uses hashtags to map stuffs made in Github itself (PR/issues). Prepending ti (stands for Timesheet Issue) with it resolve that conflict.

How to handling multiple ti# tags in a message ?

If a timesheet msg contains multiple ti# tags, let's choose one in random..

[vajahath]

resolved by #6