Integration of EA into Issuetrackers

[angel-o-sphere]

Hi,

we use Jira from http://www.atlassian.com/ as issue tracker. Mainly we track bugs and high level requirements there. I would like to link (and basically even create) requirements/issues in EA with URL in the Jira.

Jira has an XMP/RPC interface. The Eclipse Mylar plugin does something similar.

Bottom line I like to have diagrams with nodes and the data of the nodes should be in an external issue tracker ... Jira, Bugzilla what-ever.

Any hints ... ideas?

Regards,

Angelo

[«Midnight»]

Would Jira act as the target of a hyperlink?

If so, you could likely create hyperlinks on your EA diagrams that point to your Jira issues. Read the EA help for how to set up the links.

David

[angel-o-sphere]

I know about that feature.

No, it should be a little bit AJAX or RPC like: EA should display the content of the JIRA issue inside of an EA Requirement or EA Issue. By using the XML-RPC features most issue trackes offer, it should be possible to have a configuration section where you configure the url of the tracker, how to know about new issues and how to catch the Name and Description (which might be put in the note)

It is to time consuming to create issues in EA and link them to Jira and copy/paste issue names from Jira to EA.

Angelo

[«Midnight»]

I wonder if you could whip up a small add-on to EA that would make the XML-RPC calls for you.

There would be some front-end work involved. It might be worth the trouble though, particularly if you used it across several projects.

[angel-o-sphere]

Edit:

More important is: when I create an issue in EA I like to have  a corresponding issue created in the issue tracker.

@Midnight
Yepp, that is the idea, however I hoped to inspire one of the more advanced hackers to do that. I'm personally not very vomfortable with .Net / MS development ... I use EA only to write Java Software ^u^

Angelo

P.S. Edit: haha, found the modify link, thanx and can fix the typos here ... hehe

[«Midnight»]

It's the Modify link on the post. I jkeep thinking it has disappeared, only to later realize I'm looking for it at the bottom of the thread beside the Reply link.

[thomaskilian]

Happens to me all the time when using quote and wondering where that text comes from

[Paolo F Cantoni]

It's the Modify link [i]on[/i] the post. I jkeep thinking it has disappeared, only to later realize I'm looking for it at the bottom of the thread beside the Reply link.

See!  I have sealed my lips...

Paolo