Random "Done" Issues Showing Up in New Sprint Once Sprint is Started

Question

Hi! We have a team who experiences random old issues being added to their new sprints in Jira as soon as they select "Start Sprint". None of the issues were in their project Backlog prior to suddenly appearing in their new sprint.

Many of these issues are from months ago and are in Done or Cancelled status. Some have a value in the Resolution field and some do not. I've noticed a few of them have open subtasks but most of them do not. Has anyone else experienced this and found a resolution? I'm stumped!

Danielle Zhu · Answer

I believe it is this issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWSERVER-11877

Brant Schroeder · Answer

Keilah,

They do not need to have any task or story associated with them to be pulled in.  All that needs to happen is you need to add them to the next sprint at the close of the sprint and then someone closes the issue before the sprint is started.

Keilah Smith_aw3w9n · Answer

Most of the issues did have some value in the Resolution field. Many of them had a Resolution and did not have other stories/tasks associated with them so I'm not sure what else could cause them to be pulled into a new Sprint.

If an issue in category Done is removed from a completed sprint could that cause it to automatically be placed in your new sprint? Several of the issues that were added showed in their Activity that they were removed from a sprint at some point prior to the new sprint being created.