Support Jira issues (Bitbucket Data Center and Server)

[rarkins]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

Use Jira for Bitbucket Server (Data Center) for issues (e.g. config error notification, Master Issue, etc).

Describe the solution you'd like

Ideally Jira can be autodiscovered from Bitbucket Server and same credentials used, but otherwise we need additional configuration.

It is not yet known if this is feasible.

[rarkins]

Do any Bitbucket Server users like @iamstarkov or @viceice have prior knowledge about this?

[viceice]

I've looked at it before, cause i've had the same idea. This should generally work, but jira don't use markdown, they have their own markup language

[viceice]

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Using-markdown-in-Jira/qaq-p/892041

[viceice]

Markin - Markdown for Jira Cloud/Server could be an option to support markdown

[rarkins]

I'm not too worried about converting our markdown to Jira format if we need to though. It should be a reasonably easy one-way translation

[viceice]

maybe this should be configurable for users, because the field renderer can be changed on project base.

so we have to configure the corresponding project anyway, because there is no direct link between a jira project and a bitbucket repository

[rarkins]

So we can't "discover" an attached Jira server automatically - we'd need that configured in addition to the VCS endpoint? And perhaps also an additional username/password (token) if they are not shared across systems?

[viceice]

not as i'm aware of. rest apis

maybe there is some hidden rest api

[psyb0t]

@viceice did you ever get the issue tracker enabled on the repos on bitbucket server? i'm running bitbucket server and jira in docker and connected bitbucket with jira during the setup process and i don't seem to find anything related to issues.

[viceice]

You will see it, if any issue id is in commit message or pr

on pr:

on commit list:

i've added commitBody: '[VO-113]' to my config.js

[viceice]

on an jira issue:

[viceice]

VSAF-113 is my currently used virtual renovate master issue 😄

[viceice]

So we can't "discover" an attached Jira server automatically - we'd need that configured in addition to the VCS endpoint? And perhaps also an additional username/password (token) if they are not shared across systems?

Found a possibillity (maybe undocumented)

GET /rest/jira-integration/latest/servers

Response:

[
    {
        "id": "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "name": "JIRA Sample",
        "displayUrl": "https:\/\/jira.example.com",
        "rpcUrl": "https:\/\/jira.example.com",
        "authenticated": true,
        "selected": true
    }
]

We can use this to find jira and enable issues.

[viceice]

Jira supported text formatings:
rhorber_jira-text-formatting-notation.pdf

[ps-jay]

Thinking about this, since the masterIssue looks like a dashboard (reference blog post), I wonder if Confluence might be a better spot this kind of thing?

But then thinking more broadly, maybe this could be generalised for any kind of wiki?

Complementary to masterIssue, perhaps there could be an option for wikiDashboard ?
This would then have its' own set of properties, e.g.

• wikiPlatform
• wikiEndpoint
• wikiParent (e.g. store all the repo's dashboard pages under this page)

Alternative thinking, what if we could output README markdown files into a user configurable repo? Then let Bitbucket render the README.md files
e.g. renovate-bot-dashboard-repo/FOOPROJECT/bar-repo/README.md

Any of these ideas seem worth while?

[rarkins]

I've updated the title to remove some ambiguity. @setchy thanks for moving this long-awaited feature forward!

[setchy]

Thanks @rarkins.

I did a bit more googling and confirmed that Atlassian supports any combination of Bitbucket Cloud/Server to Jira Cloud/Server pairings (reference 1, reference 2)

Perhaps a title of Support Jira Server issues (Bitbucket Server) 🤷

[setchy]

As promised, #20568 created for the Jira Cloud + Bitbucket Cloud combo

[Shuyinsama]

As an interesting side not. Atlassian is currently on it's way to fully drop support for the self-hosted (server) options for all their services: https://www.atlassian.com/migration/assess/journey-to-cloud

It is highly recommended to migrate to either their cloud services or something else entirely.
Is this issue still worth the investment then?

I understand a lot of companies will probably keep using Jira server (and bitbucket server) in the coming years but you will miss out on any security and feature updates.

Is it worth developing support for an already ending service?

[braunsonm]

Atlassian is currently on it's way to fully drop support for the self-hosted (server) options for all their services

This statement is not true. Atlassian data center is still supported and not going away. They just removed the server tier.

Issue should probably be renamed but it is effectively the same product and API

[ps-jay]

They are ending support for the (relatively) low cost server products

Self-hosted editions live on as the more expensive data-centre product line

[Shuyinsama]

Ah ok. I was under the impression that server and data center were "different" in terms of API's etc.
Then yes this would still be a good integration! Thanks for the correction!

[HenrikPoulsen]

I'm not sure why this issue is specifically bit bucket + jira? Would it not make sense to just make jira a configurable option to replace the normal issue creation?

My use case is that most github repos at my company are disabled entirely, since we use jira due to there being a lot of cross team/org collaboration as well as multiple github instances etc.

So for those repos Renovate issues don't get created anywhere, making it harder to see what the problem is.

[viceice]

@HenrikPoulsen we've a different issue for that feature request.

[rarkins]

I agree that Jira Issues (whether cloud or data center) should be configurable independently of the platform

[HenrikPoulsen]

I lust be blind because it can't really find the generic Jira issue

[viceice]

I lust be blind because it can't really find the generic Jira issue

• Support Jira Cloud Issues for Bitbucket.org #20568

see discussion there

[HenrikPoulsen]

Thanks the name of the issue threw me off

[reitzig]

I'd like to go on record with saying that even a non-interactive dashboard issue that just shows the current state of Renovate-things (of the given repo, one per issue?) would be a huge help.

[aboukhal]

Anything would be better than the current state of flying blindly. It doesn't have to be perfect.