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JinZihang / vscode-jiralens

A Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension designed to bridge the gap between your code and the rich information available on Jira.
https://github.com/JinZihang/vscode-jiralens
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Question: Could I use this to track tech debt on Jira tickets? #29

Open Kjue opened 2 weeks ago

Kjue commented 2 weeks ago

I'm on the lookout for extension that would allow seeing technical debt basically within the IDE directly. It is equally intersting to see technical debt tickets listed as such, but one clear need is to be able to show related tech debt in the code when viewing it. That requires the tickets to have some sort of bearing that they are indeed techdebt to begin with and then to be able to show that within the IDE. What do you think? Thanks!

JinZihang commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the idea @Kjue! That sounds interesting and useful. I haven't found a good solution for doing that yet, but I will look into this direction.

This extension retrieves Jira info via the ticket number in the commit message. Including the ticket number in the commit message is a requirement where I work, and from what I heard it seems to be a shared practice across companies. However, I don't think there is a standard approach for linking the tech debt ticket. Sometimes it's only mentioned in the code review messages, sometimes there is a Jira link from the original ticket to it, and sometimes it's documented far away on other platforms like Confluence.

For now, the action I can think of is to display all linked Jira ticket number and their titles. Then, advocate the practice of linking the tech debt ticket to the original ticket. Wdyt?