[hibernate-dev] JIRA Pull Request Workflow

During today's IRC meeting we discussed some changes to JIRA to better deal with GitHub pull requests. The first change was to introduce a new issue field for holding a list of pull request urls. There is also a new issue status named "Pull Request Pending". Currently it is not "hooked in" because there are no active workflow transtions using it. That is the next step, to introduce a specific JIRA workflow to manage the transitions around "Pull Request Pending". In terms of in-flowing transitions, I see: * Open -> Pull Request Pending * Reopened -> Pull Request Pending * In Progress -> Pull Request Pending * Awaiting Test Case -> Pull Request Pending * Resolved -> Pull Request Pending For out-flowing: * Pull Request Pending -> Open * Pull Request Pending -> Reopened * Pull Request Pending -> In Progress * Pull Request Pending -> Resolved * Pull Request Pending -> Closed So far all that is manual. The final step would be integration with GitHub based on its event handling, specifically pull request events to add some automation. For sure one automation would be when a pull request is added, to add the pull request url to the JIRA issue(s). Potentially we would transition the issue to "Pull Request Pending" status. Potentially on closing the pull request we might also transition the issue back out of "Pull Request Pending" status. However, there are some difficulties with these automated transitions. See the weekly IRC developer meeting notes from 12/20 for details. Thoughts/ideas? -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org