gh-action-jira-comment

Use GitHub actions to comment on Jira issues.

Authentication

To provide a URL and credentials you can use the gajira-login action, which will write a config file this action can read. Alternatively, you can set some environment variables:

• JIRA_BASE_URL - e.g. https://my-org.atlassian.net. The URL for your Jira instance.
• JIRA_API_TOKEN - e.g. iaJGSyaXqn95kqYvq3rcEGu884TCbMkU. An access token.
• JIRA_USER_EMAIL - e.g. user@example.com. The email address for the access token.

Inputs

• issue (required) - The issue key to comment on, e.g. 'TEST-23'
• comment (required) - The comment to make, e.g. 'This one's important'

Outputs

None.

Examples

The following examples are valid steps for a particular job in a workflow; to see how to integrate them into a fully worked example, refer to the documentation.

Using atlassian/gajira-login and GitHub secrets for authentication:

- name: Login
  uses: atlassian/gajira-login@v2.0.0
  env:
    JIRA_BASE_URL: ${{ secrets.JIRA_BASE_URL }}
    JIRA_USER_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.JIRA_USER_EMAIL }}
    JIRA_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.JIRA_API_TOKEN }}

- name: Comment
  uses: tomhjp/gh-action-jira-comment@v0.1.3
  with:
    issue: TEST-23
    comment: "This is an automated comment"