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Commits not linking to Jira issues

Seeing commits and PRs that never show up on their Jira issues. Dev panel just stays empty even though the key is in the commit. Sometimes it's a typo'd key, sometimes a deleted issue, sometimes the sync just quietly fails and nothing tells you.

Built a free read-only audit tool that scans your GitHub repos and counts how many never linked, and why. 5 min setup with a read-only GitHub token.

Curious how common this is. If you run it, post your %. Install Dev-Link Audit for Jira (free)

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Security details for anyone checking before installing: fine-grained read-only GitHub token only (it rejects broad classic tokens), no write access to anything, no telemetry. Source is public if you want to read it before trusting it: https://github.com/kabircodezz/jira-devlink-audit . GitHub only for now, and it measures; it doesn't fix anything.

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@Simon Panosh

This solves a real issue with an interesting tool, but I’d suggest shifting from a reactive measure to a proactive rule:

Current approach: Count unlinked commits and pull requests after they happen.
Suggested approach: Enforce linking at the gate. Require every commit or PR title/description to include a valid Jira work item key (filtered by JQL) and reject non-compliant pushes.

An example of this approach in action is the Better Commit Policy Connector for Bitbucket.

(Discl. this supported app is developed by our team.)

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