CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bitbucketjira
sandalone
sandalone

Reputation: 41769

Bitbucket issues section useless when connected to JIRA?

I have connected Bitbucket repo with JIRA project. Now when I commit to Bitbucket, I can reference JIRA issues or I can create branches in Bitbucket repo from JIRA and view commits from JIRA.

However, when I create an issue in JIRA or an issue in Bitbucket, they are not being synced. I have not found any tutorial about this.

Does this mean that Issues section in Bitbucket is useless when we connect it to JIRA? Is Issues section on Bitbucket only for repos that are not connected to JIRA (and I should turn it off in repos that have JIRA connection?

I am sure this is easy answer for someone who's done these things before.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1442

Answers (1)

GlennV
GlennV

Reputation: 3670

In short: yes.

A bit longer: Bitbucket is a product that was developed separately from JIRA in a different company. Atlassian bought Bitbucket a couple years ago. Bitbucket already contained a simple issue tracker and it still does, but its focus is hosting source code. JIRA's focus is managing issues, and Atlassian has provided excellent integration between JIRA and Bitbucket. So, if you use both then there really is no need to still use Bitbucket's issue tracker.

The full details of the integration are described on the page I linked before, but some examples are:

  • JIRA issues display a "development tools panel" that shows the commits made for the issue + a link to easily create a branch for the issue. enter image description here
  • The JIRA releases view shows information about commits enter image description here
  • In Bitbucket issue keys are rendered as links so you can easily navigate to JIRA.
  • ...

Upvotes: 8

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