JIRA
Bulk Unsubscribe from Jira
If you find yourself in a position where you are receiving a huge number of jira notifications you might want to bulk unsubscribe from jira notifications. I was responsible for a huge import of tickets so I ended up getting notified every time anyone does anything on thousands of items which was pretty irritating.
Thankfully there is a relatively simple solution. Firstly you'll want to go into the project in queston and enter the issues view. In the JQL search bar at the top you can enter:
project = "<proj-code>" AND watcher = currentUser() where proj-code corresponds to the shortcode that your issues contain in their ID. This should generate a huge list of issues:
From there go to the kebab menu on the right hand side and select Bulk change all 1,000 issues. Unfortunately JIRA places an upper limit of 1k on all bulk actions so if you have more than that you might have to do this process a few times.
In the next view you're going to tick the checkbox at the top of the page to select all issues
Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click Next
Select the "Stop Watching Issues" radio button and click Next
Confirm the instruction:
Next, wait for the operation to complete and click "Acknowledge". You'll probably have to do this a few times if you have more than 1000 items to unsubscribe from.
Resources
- https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-do-I-stop-watching-all-issues-in-a-project/qaq-p/1007931 (Mirror)
Migrating from Linear to JIRA
Introduction to Migrating from Linear to JIRA
Why would you want to migrate from Linear to JIRA?
At our company we started to realise that we needed more of Jira's heavy duty features that Linear doesn't provide. Mainly things like burn-down charts and estimation tools. We also wanted to take better advantage of Jira's first party integrations into the Jira Product Discovery and Jira Service Management.
How to go about it?
Migrating from Linear to JIRA is a fairly complex journey with multiple phases. A colleague and I ended up writing a number of scripts and tools to help us manage the process. I have chosen to make these tools open source so that others who go through this process might be able to navigate it more easily. The tools are available both on Github and on my personal Gitea instance.
The below diagram shows a mapping of the scripts that are involved in this process and their dependencies upon each other.
Export Issues from Linear
The first step in the process is to export your initial set of issues from Linear using the built in UI. This will generate a CSV file containing issue information that you can use to feed into subsequent processes.
Install and Configure the Python Scripts
You will need to install a compatible version of Python and the associated dependencies before you'll be able to run any of the scripts.
Create API Keys
You will need an API key that the Python scripts can use to access your Linear account and an API key that link importer can use to communicate with JIRA. If you have attachments that you want to copy over you will also need an Ngrok API key or credentials for copying the files somewhere public such as a GCP or S3 bucket or an FTP server.
Export Projects, Attachments, Comments and External Links
Once we have a Linear API key in place we can start to export these things via the GraphQL API. The provided scripts will automatically extract everything we need and write it to a CSV file.
Host Attachments
In order for Jira to find the attachment files they must be hosted somewhere public.
Generate JIRA Import JSON
Once we have set up a config.yaml configuration file we can use all of the previous steps to generate a JSON file to be uploaded to JIRA.
Import External Links
After everything has been imported into JIRA we can import any external links into the platform.
Exporting Issues from Linear
The first step we need to take is to export our issues from linear. The easiest way to do this is from Linear's UI. You'll want to Log into Linear and click on your profile pic in the top left and then select Settings.
On the next page, click "Import/Export"
Then, scroll down to "Export" and click "Export CSV"
You will receive an email containing a CSV of all of your issue data