[hibernate-dev] JIRA Pull Request Workflow

[Steve Ebersole]

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?

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