Automation for creating and releasing a version doesn't work

Jonathan Schwarze

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to automatically release all issues from the board which are resolved for over a day. I created the automation as seen on the screenshot, but it happens to release the version before assigning the version to the respective issues and therefore doesn't work properly.

 

What am I doing wrong here?

 

Thanks & best regards

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Jonathan Schwarze 

Your rule works as designed, and the challenge is the behavior of branches in rules:

• Branches on one-and-only-one-thing (e.g., branch on parent, on current issue, etc.) get run in-line, as if the branch did not exist
• All other branches which could be on more-than-one-thing (e.g. on JQL, linked issues, etc.) are run in-parallel and asynchronously.  There is no guarantee of when the branch will end, up to the last step of the rule.

For your rule, this means the Release Version action likely happens before all issues are assigned.  (There are open suggestions to add an option to branches to make them wait, such as this one: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AUTO-238 )

One work-around for your scenario is to use 2 rules:

1. Scheduled trigger to create the version and assign the issues
2. Scheduled trigger (such as 15 minutes after the first rule) to then release the version

This work-around has a limitation that when Atlassian has a problem where rules are not executing, the delay will be insufficient to prevent the collision/race-track error.

Kind regards,
Bill