Failing a build if no Jira tickets in SVN commit message

[Brenton Bartel]

Is there an easy/straight-forward way for Bamboo to fail a build if there are no legit Jira tickets in SVN commit message?

[Sean Dockery · Accepted solution]

You can install a pre-commit hook in the Subversion server that rejected a commit based on the fact that a valid unresolved JIRA issue key was not found in the commit message. There are a dozen or so pre-commit hooks for this purpose already out there, so you wouldn't have to develop your own.

[Przemek Bruski]

You could try adding a script task. The simplest case:

svn log -r ${bamboo.custom.svn.lastchange.revision.number}:${bamboo.custom.svn.revision.number} | egrep 'PROJ1-|PROJ2-' || exit 1

would fail a build if no commits in a build have something that looks like a JIRA ticket in the comment body.

If you want to check that the JIRA tickets actually do exist, or make sure that each commit in a build has a JIRA ticket, you need to parse the svn log output and make REST calls to JIRA to query for tickets.

[Brenton Bartel]

We have dozens of projects always being added, but this is a great start. I suppose I could use Jira's API to check if the ticket exists ... there's no plugins out there like that that already exist?