Grouping Releases together without being in multiple Jira Projects

Question

Hi all!
As of now Releases can be grouped only if they belong to different Jira projects.
We instead are considering to have a single big project with many releases in it, on different parts of our application.
We would then need to group some of those "per-component" releases into a larger milestone (let's say "Q3 milestone", or "Foundations in place").

It looks like it is NOT possible just because we would have everything on a single jira project, while it would have been possible in case of different jira projects.

Pretty weird and definitely upsetting as it causes quite a problem in holding the bigger picture.

Looks like it's not possible in Jira Premium nor Standard.

Atlassian, could you please open a feature request?

Thanks!!

Yuri Lapin _Release Management_ · Answer

Hi @Simone Longoni

Trust you are well.

If you up to considering Marketplace Partner Apps I would suggest to try out our Release Management for Jira, why?

* We do have a notion of cross-project release version when we simulate "Single Version across Multiple Project" and we always keep all individual versions in sync disregard on the way the change is happening - in our App, in Jira, manually or with automation.
* We also have a notion of meta-release to package versions from single or multiple projects into one deliverable and track though release workflow
* Both component, cross-project and meta-release have a Milestones functionality to track intermediate progress.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Yuri.

Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira · Answer

Hi @Simone Longoni

if you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, you may want to have a look at the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also comes with a long list of advanced features - including support for issue grouping by any issue field(s), as well as sum-ups - and works across any number of projects.

With this, you can build a view like e.g. this in just a couple of clicks:

This is really just one of a virtually endless number of possible views; you can also view, group by, and sum up any other issue field(s). Issue groupings and sum-ups can also be combined with JXL's other advanced features, such as a (configurable) issue hierarchies or conditional formatting.

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes

Dave Rosenlund (Trundl) · Answer

Hello, @Simone Longoni   👋

Please note that the Atlassian Community is largely comprised of Atlassian customers like you (and me). So, it's not the best place to provide feedback or suggest enhancements to Atlassian.

For that, it is best to share your feedback through the Atlassian product feedback (Suggestions and bug reports) system.

Visit the Jira Cloud support page to do so.

Best,

-dave