Integration with GitLab

[Lukasz Jader]

GitLab becomes more popular as opensource product which is used in companies to host private git repositories.

Since "JIRA DVCS Connector" is opensource and with commercial friendly licence I have two questions:

1. Do you consider adding integration with GitLab in similair way as added with GitHub Enterprise?

2. If answer to first question is No then do you will accept pull request with such integration if it will be made by others? If not please elaborate why.

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[Daniel Kleine-Albers · Accepted solution]

I just created an initial version for JIRA 6.3.x that already supports Gitlab in a very basic way (see https://bitbucket.org/dka/jira-dvcs-connector in the jira6.3.x branch). Changeset sync is working already, Pull requests are not yet implemented. Feedback welcome.

Please note that the "Commits" tab is currently only visible when you disable the Development Tools Plugin - I guess this one needs to know additionally about Gitlab.

[Fabian Ehrentraud]

Now that looks interesting, thanks for sharing. Do you use it in production? Will you expand on it? Which bugs / missing features are there?

[Fabian Ehrentraud]

Does it work both with GitLab Cloud and Self-Hosted?

[Daniel Kleine-Albers]

We are currently using this in production since almost 2 months now. It currently syncs changesets; merge requests are currently not synced (I'm happy to acccept any merge requests for this on Bitbucket). Otherwise I'm not aware of any bugs; let me know if you find any. I have only tested on our Self-Hosted instance. Technically there should be no problem to run it against the cloud as it uses the openly documented HTTP API only. I'm just not sure if all functions are available in Cloud as well. After all it would be really great to get this merged back to the "official" DVCS connector to get it to a broader user base.

[Andy Airey]

Please create a pull request with your code for https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/jira-dvcs-connector

[Ashim Mishra]

Which Maven version should I build this with? I tried to build the master, its throwing all sorts of errors that dependency information not available.

[Daniel Kleine-Albers]

The easiest is to use the Maven that comes with the Atlassian Plugin SDK

[Ashim Mishra]

that worked, thanks a lot.

[Iulian Baranai]

From my research:

Integration options:

• Very basic integration (at GitLab project level) that can post comments on JIRA with the mentions of the task. I would not recommend it.
  https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/jira.html
  
• Integration made at GitLab Group level that maintains branches, pull requests and commits - done through the DVCS Connector. It is free of charge as long GitLab Silver or Gold is used (otherwise doesn't seem to work). Even if is was nout built specifically for GitLabm from a security point of view, the connector is part of the comprehensive offering which is included in the Jira Software application and no data is sent to GitHub (confirmed with Atlassian Support team).
  https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jira_development_panel.html
  
• Third party addon, as listed in above comment. Haven't tested it yet. Pricing model based on numbers of users.
  https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/4984/git-integration-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview.
• Other third party addon, also mentioned above. Haven't tested it.
  https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.allenta.jira.plugins.gitlab.gitlab-listener
  

Tasks open to deal create a dedicated integration:

• At GitLab: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1626
• At Atlassian: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-14412

Hope this helps, cheers!

[Shared Tools Administrator]

May also be worth voting for this issue

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/DCON-499

[Sorin Sbarnea]

Back this open source project if you want to see real GitLab support in JIRA, not only gitlab.com but any gitlab instance and probably even other self hosted git repositories, as long you can mount the network drive on your JIRA server.

[Andrzej Kosieradzki]

+1

[jbtorres]

is there any way that it can be integrated gitlab, gitlab.comwith tickets?, when submit a ticket this show on gitlab issues tracking, something like github issues tracker

[Matt Harden]

I think https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/integration/external-issue-tracker.md may be what you want.

[Thomas Ehardt]

This "integration" provides a link to issues in JIRA. The JIRA DVCS Connector adds functionality within JIRA to see changes from the source repository. I'm not sure that your recommendation is correct.

[carlos]

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.allenta.jira.plugins.gitlab.gitlab-listener may be useful :)

[Dave Liao]

Jira Software 8.14 is slated to officially add support for GitLab, huzzah!

[Adam Wride]

The Git Integration for JIRA add-on supports GitLab and GitLab CE/EE on JIRA Server/Cloud. Cheers!

[Jaco ter Braak]

no.

[Lukasz Jader]

Does someone from team responsible for plugin could answer to my question?