Gong

Summary

Working with Jira can be a delight but it can also be a huge pain if you are like me, working in the terminal most of the day. Opening the browser and entering a bunch of fields can be a real pain.

I created (am creating) jglow to solve a bunch of my pains in managing my flow

Usage

Login

In order to use gong you first you need to login.

gong login will prompt you 3 things.

Type your username please: [email protected]
Please type your password. Don't worry, nothing will show on the screen: ************************
What is the instance URL for Jira (no need for https://): ORG.atlassian.net
Successfully logged in to Jira, congrats!

Login will check your credentials against Jira, if details are correct, it will save the login details to disk. By default this goes to $HOME/.gong.ini

Start working on an issue

gong start {issue-id} --type feature

If you want to start working on an issue, you can type in gong start with the issue id and what type of work is this (defaults to feature).

This will do a couple of things

1. Create a branch name {type}/{issue-id}-{issue-title-sluggified}
2. Transition the issue to a started state

gong browse

While working on a branch that matches the gong regular expression (look above), you can type gong browse and it will open up a browser opened on the issue automatically.

gong comment

While working on a branch that matches the gong regular expression, you can type gong comment "some comment" and it will send a comment on the ticket.

This is a perfect way to streamline communication

Work in progress

This is very much a work in progress and I am adding more features.

Upcoming features

gong slack

Send a message to a slack channel, tagging the issue you are working on

gong create

Create a ticket, automatically giving you an id and starting to work on the issue.

gong next/pick

Show you the next items on your backlog, be able to start one without opening the browser