jira-lint 🧹

A light-weight lint workflow when using GitHub along with JIRA for project management. Ported from pivotal-lint for similar usage with Atlassian's Jira Software.

Installation
- Semantic Versions
Features
Contributing
FAQ
Contributors

Installation

To make jira-lint a part of your workflow, just add a jira-lint.yml file in your .github/workflows/ directory in your GitHub repository.

name: jira-lint
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  jira-lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: cleartax/jira-lint@master
        name: jira-lint
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          jira-token: ${{ secrets.JIRA_TOKEN }}
          jira-base-url: https://your-domain.atlassian.net
          skip-branches: '^(production-release|master|release\/v\d+)$'
          skip-comments: true
          pr-threshold: 1000

It can also be used as part of an existing workflow by adding it as a step. More information about the options here.

Semantic Versions

If you want more stability in versions of jira-lint than @master you can also use the semantic releases for jira-lint.

Example:

# ...
steps:
  - uses: cleartax/jira-lint@v0.0.1
    name: jira-lint
    # ...

Features

PR Status Checks

jira-lint adds a status check which helps you avoid merging PRs which are missing a valid Jira Issue Key in the branch name. It will use the Jira API to validate a given key.

PR Description & Labels

Description

When a PR passes the above check, jira-lint will also add the issue details to the top of the PR description. It will pick details such as the Issue summary, type, estimation points, status and labels and add them to the PR description.

Labels

jira-lint will automatically label PRs with:

A label based on the Jira Project name (the project the issue belongs to). For example, if your project name is Escher then it will add escher as a label.
HOTFIX-PROD - if the PR is raised against production-release.
HOTFIX-PRE-PROD - if the PR is raised against release/v*.
Jira issue type (based on your project).

Issue details and labels added to a PR.

Issue Status Validation

Issue status is shown in the Description. Why validate issue status? In some cases, one may be pushing changes for a story that is set to Done/Completed or it may not have been pulled into working backlog or current sprint.

This option allows discouraging pushing to branches for stories that are set to statuses other than the ones allowed in the project; for example - you may want to only allow PRs for stories that are in To Do/Planning/In Progress states.

The following flags can be used to validate issue status:

validate_issue_status
- If set to true, jira-lint will validate the issue status based on allowed_issue_statuses
allowed_issue_statuses
- This will only be used when validate_issue_status is true. This should be a comma separated list of statuses. If the detected issue's status is not in one of the allowed_issue_statuses then jira-lint will fail the status check.

Example of invalid status

💔 The detected issue is not in one of the allowed statuses 💔

Detected Status	${issueStatus}	❌
Allowed Statuses	${allowedStatuses}	✔️

Please ensure your jira story is in one of the allowed statuses

Soft-validations via comments

jira-lint will add comments to a PR to encourage better PR practices:

A good PR title

When the title of the PR matches the summary/title of the issue well.

When the title of the PR is slightly different compared to the summary/title of the issue

When the title of the PR is very different compared to the summary/title of the issue

A comment discouraging PRs which are too large (based on number of lines of code changed).

Batman says no large PRs 🦇

Options

key	description	required	default
`github-token`	Token used to update PR description. `GITHUB_TOKEN` is already available when you use GitHub actions, so all that is required is to pass it as a param here.	true	null
`jira-token`	Token used to fetch Jira Issue information. Check below for more details on how to generate the token.	true	null
`jira-base-url`	The subdomain of JIRA cloud that you use to access it. Ex: "https://your-domain.atlassian.net".	true	null
`skip-branches`	A regex to ignore running `jira-lint` on certain branches, like production etc.	false	' '
`skip-comments`	A `Boolean` if set to `true` then `jira-lint` will skip adding lint comments for PR title.	false	false
`pr-threshold`	An `Integer` based on which `jira-lint` will add a comment discouraging huge PRs.	false	800
`validate_issue_status`	A `Boolean` based on which `jira-lint` will validate the status of the detected jira issue	false	false
`allowed_issue_statuses`	A comma separated list of allowed statuses. The detected jira issue's status will be compared against this list and if a match is not found then the status check will fail. Note: Requires `validate_issue_status` to be set to `true`.	false	`"In Progress"`

`jira-token`

Since tokens are private, we suggest adding them as GitHub secrets.

The Jira token is used to fetch issue information via the Jira REST API. To get the token:-

Generate an API token via JIRA
Create the encoded token in the format of base64Encode(<username>:<api_token>). For example, if the username is ci@example.com and the token is 954c38744be9407ab6fb, then ci@example.com:954c38744be9407ab6fb needs to be base64 encoded to form Y2lAZXhhbXBsZS5jb206OTU0YzM4NzQ0YmU5NDA3YWI2ZmI=
The above value (in this example Y2lAZXhhbXBsZS5jb206OTU0YzM4NzQ0YmU5NDA3YWI2ZmI=) needs to be added as the JIRA_TOKEN secret in your GitHub project.

Note: The user should have the required permissions (mentioned under GET Issue).

Skipping branches

Since GitHub actions take string inputs, skip-branches must be a regex which will work for all sets of branches you want to ignore. This is useful for merging protected/default branches into other branches. Check out some examples in the tests.

jira-lint already skips PRs which are filed by bots (for eg. dependabot). You can add more bots to this list, or add the branch-format followed by the bot PRs to the skip-branches option.