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What it does

With Jira as your ticket tool, CodeObsess picks up work from comments on issues in your linked Jira projects and reports back on the same issue. Your code can be on GitHub or Bitbucket.

Set it up

An owner or admin of your company does the company steps on Home.
  1. Connect your Jira site: enter its address, like https://your-company.atlassian.net, and press Connect Jira. A Jira administrator of the site connects it, and they must be an owner or admin of your company in CodeObsess.
  2. Install the CodeObsess app on your Jira site: CodeObsess installs it with you. Contact us to set it up. This step is done once your site sends CodeObsess its first comment.
  3. Connect GitHub, where your code is (or Bitbucket), and choose your repositories.
  4. Link your Jira projects: enter each project’s key (the letters before an issue’s number, like KAN for KAN-1) and choose its product. Press Link project.

Each person connects Jira

Each person presses Connect Jira (on Home or in My account) and signs in with their own Atlassian account. This tells CodeObsess that your comments on Jira issues are yours. It is not a sign-in method.

Who can start a run

A person who connected their Jira account, in the company that connected the site, and who may edit that issue in Jira. Everyone else gets nothing.

How to use it

  • Start: mention @codeobsess in a comment on an issue in a linked project. Mentions inside code or quotes don’t count.
  • Status: CodeObsess posts one status comment and edits it as the run moves. Each new request gets its own status comment.
  • Questions: when CodeObsess asks something, a plain comment written after the question answers it.
  • Stop: write @codeobsess stop.

What access it needs

The CodeObsess app on your Jira site asks for read and write access to Jira work (issues and comments). Each person’s own Atlassian link is used to check that they may edit the issue.

Disconnect

  • The site: an owner or admin presses Disconnect in Settings › Connections. New comments there start nothing, and runs keep their pull requests. You can connect it again from there or Home.
  • Your own account: press Remove under Jira in My account. CodeObsess stops acting on your Jira comments.
If Atlassian stops accepting your link, see Your link to Atlassian has expired.