Type: Epic automation setup request

[brentc]

From

Team: Mobile Developer Experience

To

MDX

[brentc]

We've mostly moved over to GitHub for project planning. This is so we can sync our GH project plan tasks with Jira for Eng reporting.

[chadwhitacre]

Our first in sentry, let's do it! Here's a PR to add the label, I'm seeing a perms issue in Unito so I'll need to resolve that as well.

[chadwhitacre]

PR landed, need to resolve perms issue.

[chadwhitacre]

I pinged IT about it.

[chadwhitacre]

I filed a ticket.

[chadwhitacre]

Resolved! The MDE project in Jira had had "Adminstrators" removed from it, only Global Admins could modify.

[chadwhitacre]

Okay @brentc this is ready. Can you test it out by labeling an issue in the sentry repo with both Type: Epic and Team: Mobile Developer Experience? The expected result is a synced epic issue created in the MDX Jira board that also shows up on Releases.

[brentc]

Resolved! The MDE project in Jira had had "Adminstrators" removed from it, only Global Admins could modify.

Ah, my bad. I only created the project this week, and guess I didn't get the permissions right.

[brentc]

I added the Type: Epic label to getsentry/sentry#43833.

Not seeing anything happen yet....

[brentc]

Also some how getsentry/sentry#43973 and getsentry/sentry#42044 got added to the Jira MDX project

[chadwhitacre]

Sigh. Sorry for the mix-up. Turns out it's seemingly not possible to match on the presence of two labels, I didn't notice until now that the condition for the team label is "is not." 🙄

I'll work with Zac to move those errant epics to the right project.

[chadwhitacre]

Okay phew it's a multiselect. :]

Seeing getsentry/sentry#43833 synced! We good?

[brentc]

Looks like it! 🎉

[brentc]

Had to reopen because I didn't setup the original project properly (that's why the permissions were weird when you looked into it).

The new MDX project is this one: https://getsentry.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/MDX/boards/190

[brentc]

@chadwhitacre while you weren't looking, I broke the syncing badly.

Every newly sync'd MDX Epic goes to the FEEDBACK board (as a task) 😢

[chadwhitacre]

Hey right so this is a mess, it turns out that these are OR'd not AND'd. 😭 😩 😖

This means that all of the flows I thought were separate are in fact in a race condition to "capture" GitHub issues as they're created with the Type: Epic label, regardless of the project.

At this point I'm bailing on the automation, I had hoped to put something together quickly that helps us out but it's been two weeks and despite working with Unito support this is not converging on a workable solution. Sorry, gonna have to drop back to manual creation/linking. I've disabled all of the automations, I'll update docs soon and also try to clean everything up here asap. :(

[chadwhitacre]

Closing this and will track overall switch to manual in #106.

Sorry @brentc. 😞

[brentc]

Ah, too bad. If you need any help with future attempts to get things working, let me know! Happy to try all sorts of things to get something working here.