Automation In Jira issue (github - Jira)

[YeonJeongMin]

Hi, This is our team situation.

Let's say there's a github repogitory called A repo.

Each of team members fork the A repo.

They make pull request to A repo's main branch from their own forked repo's branch when they finish development.

And we go on code review and merge in to A repo's main branch.

The thing I want to do is automation in Jira.

And let's say there's four states in issue.

- Open, In-progress, Resolved, ReadyForQA

So I just make three automation rules.

1. when branch created from each of team memeber's forked repo and push to their own forked repo, move issue to In-progress

2. when Pull request created from forked repo to A repo, move issue to Resolved

3. when Pull request merged to A repo, move issue to ReadyForQA

I found out that 2, 3 automation rules worked when I make automations like this screen captures.

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But the problem is first rule. I made it like under screen capture.

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It worked when I made branch and push from A repo, not A repo's forked repo. 

So I just want to know how to transition the issue from open → In-progress when we use fork repository. 

Is there any automation trigger for github forked repo or any other way to catch these push from forked repository?

[Jehan Bhathena · Accepted solution]

Hello @YeonJeongMin ,

I'm not too sure of the use case you're mentioning, but in my view, when we create a FORK, we are essentially drifting away from the main repo, unlike branching. Since Jira doesn't track FORK by default you can perhaps build a custom solution around this.

In theory, you can trigger a webhook from github when you create a FORK, (https://docs.github.com/en/webhooks-and-events/webhooks/webhook-events-and-payloads#fork).

Reference : https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation073/how-to-integrate-jira-and-github-using-automation-for-jira-1093013472.html

The blog is a bit old but might be relevant for your use case.

[YeonJeongMin]

Thank you for your quick reply @Jehan Bhathena :)

I understand that there's no default way to track FORK repo. 

I will find out the way to webhook the branch push from my FORK repo following the steps you give me references. 

Thanks 👍🏻