Feature Request: Allow creation of Jira tickets as epic

[segunfamisa]

Feature request

Allow [epic] whiteboard label to create a Jira ticket as "Epic".

Context

We often have meta bugs in bugzilla that we would like to have as Jira epics. We usually end up manually changing the type on Jira.

It would be nice to have a way of creating Jira epics or updating an already synched issue to an epic, and the proposal here is to use a [epic] whiteboard label.

This work can also serve as a precursor for replicating the bugzilla dependency structure in Jira. Right now, we map issues as "defect -> bug", "task -> task", but in Jira, we cannot link a task as a child of another task, so we have to have the parent as an epic. Having a way to create epics will bring us one step closer to being able to add a 'depends on' bugzilla bug as a child item in Jira.

[leplatrem]

Good idea.

It should be feasible to modify this:

jira-bugzilla-integration/jbi/steps.py

Lines 80 to 86 in 84a45cf

	issue_type = parameters.issue_type_map.get(bug.type or "", "Task")
	# In the payload of a bug creation, the `comment` field is `null`.
	description = bugzilla_service.get_description(bug.id)
	jira_create_response = jira_service.create_jira_issue(
	context, description, issue_type
	)

And look whether epic is among bug.whiteboard_tags

[davehunt]

I think you should already be able to do this via Jira automation. I would love to see dependencies shown in Jira, and I have a script that I'm working on that will do this for me using Bugzilla's blockers/dependencies and Jira's issue link type of "Blocks". If that works well I may look into adding this as a feature to JBI.

The problem with using epics (or parent/child) for this is that Jira limits issues to having a single parent, but Bugzilla bugs can block multiple bugs. If bugs only block a single "epic" bug then I imagine this could work, but as soon as you break this unenforced rule I suspect you'll get unexpected behavior.

[davehunt]

I've opened #1247 to sync blocks and depends_on links to Jira

[davehunt]

I created a Jira automation rule to add a link to parent epics based on the whiteboard tags for a bug. It requires the sync_whiteboard_labels in your configuration. I've exported the rule here in case you're able to import it (or just extract the details to recreate it).

automation-rule-019c4842-7bfc-7ce1-a8d5-fc41a5694ee8-202602101844.json