bugfix/revised-parent-id-datatype

[fivetran-joemarkiewicz]

PR Overview

This PR will address the following Issue/Feature: Issue #121

This PR will result in the following new package version: v0.16.0

The changing datatype of the revised_parent_issue_id field from int to string will result in a breaking change. There is no impact on incremental models, so no full refresh is required. But we should categorize this as a breaking change.

Please provide the finalized CHANGELOG entry which details the relevant changes included in this PR:

🚨 Breaking Changes: Bug Fixes 🚨

• The following fields in the below mentioned models have been converted to a string datatype (previously integer) to ensure classic Jira projects may link issues to epics. If you are referencing these fields downstream, be sure to make any changes to account for the new datatype.
  • revised_parent_issue_id field within the int_jira__issue_type_parents model
  • parent_issue_id field within the jira__issue_enhanced model

Under the Hood

• Included auto-releaser GitHub Actions workflow to automate future releases.
• Updated the maintainer PR template to resemble the most up to date format.
• Updated field and issue_field_history seed files to ensure we have an updated test case to capture the epic-link scenario for classic Jira environments.

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[fivetran-joemarkiewicz]

My remaining question is that in other packages, we preferred to cast in the source package rather than in the downstream joins, so we only had to cast once. Do we not do this in this case because the intermediate models get a bit complicated and this was more straightforward or another reason?

Great question @fivetran-catfritz! You are correct that I would prefer we typically cast the fields as string in the staging models. However, I did not take the approach here as it was a more straightforward approach and when exploring casting the upstream fields as strings I found that this PR would have quite a larger fingerprint and cause significantly more breaking changes (with little to no value). Because of this I decided taking the direct approach was the more efficient way to go about addressing this issue for both us and the end user. In this case the end user only has to be concerned about the revised_parent_issue_id being changed to a string datatype. If we were to cast the fields (particularly the issue_id field) upstream it would involve more models and fields that would be breaking.

Let me know if you have any other questions!