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Overview

Ticketing systems (Github, Jira, etc.) are strongly integrated into our processes and everyone understands their necessity. As soon as a developer becomes a lead/technical manager, he or she faces a set of routine tasks that are related to ticketing work. On large projects this becomes a problem, more and more you spend time running around on dashboards and tickets, looking for incorrect deviations in tickets and performing routine tasks instead of solving technical problems.

The idea of automatic management is not new, but large companies/projects are not ready yet for such a decisive breakthrough and need step-by-step solutions such as lazylead. I think you remember how static code analysis treated at in the past; today we have a huge toolkit (pmd, checkstyle, qulice, rubocop, peon, etc) for each language that allows you to avoid routine issues and remove from the code reviewer the unnecessary load. The same logic we can apply to our day-to-day ticket management activities - let’s reduce or even remove unnecessary routine actions.

Join our telegram chat lazylead for discussions.

Legend:

Daily annoying task Jira Github Trello SVN Git
Notify ticket’s assignee βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify ticket’s reporter βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify ticket’s manager βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about illegal β€œFix Version” modification βœ… ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Expected comment in ticket is missing βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Propagate some fields from parent ticket into sub-tasks βœ… ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Evaluate the ticket formatting accuracy βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Print the current capacity of team into newly created tasks βŒ› βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Create/retrofit the defect automatically into latest release βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌ ❌
Notify about expired(ing) due dates βœ… ❌ βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about absent original estimations βŒ› βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about β€˜Hot potato’ tickets βŒ› βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about long live tickets (aging) βŒ› βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Create a meeting(s) automatically in case some tickets appeared (group by assignee/reporters/component/ticket type/etc) βŒ› βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Propogate fields from parent tickets to sub-tasks βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about tickets without comments with expected text βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about team loading (no tasks on teammates) βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about tickets matches predefined multiple conditions βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Link automatically the ticket and Confluence page if link found in ticket’s comments/description βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about tickets assigned to your team members not by effective managers βœ… βŒ› βŒ› ❌ ❌
Notify about modifications of important files in VCS ❌ βŒ› ❌ βœ… 🚴
Notify about diff changes for past X period in VCS ❌ βŒ› ❌ βœ… 🚴
Notify about changes with some text for past X period in VCS ❌ βŒ› ❌ βœ… 🚴
Notify when someone outside of your team changed the due date on tickets for your team βœ… βŒ› ❌ ❌ ❌
Notify when someone outside of your team assigned a ticket directly to the developer βœ… βŒ› ❌ ❌ ❌
Integration Type Status
Microsoft Exchange Server Emails βœ…
Microsoft Exchange Server Calendar βŒ›
mail.yandex.com Emails βœ…
mail.google.com Emails 🌡
calendar.google.com Calendar βŒ›
slack.com Notifications βŒ›
GitHub VCS + CI/CD βŒ›
GitLab VCS + CI/CD βŒ›
BitBucket VCS + CI/CD βŒ›

New ideas, bugs, suggestions or questions are welcome via GitHub issues!

Get started

⚠️ We’re still in a very early alpha version, the API may change frequently until we release version 1.0.

Let’s assume that:

For simplicity, we are using docker-compose:

  1. Define yml file with configuration tasks.yml
    version: '2.3'
    services:
        
      lazylead:
        image: dgroup/lazylead:latest
        container_name: lazylead
        mem_limit: 128m
        environment:
          # The jira server details.
          # Please ensure that your jira filter(s) grants this user to see issues.
          # Sometimes jira filter(s) may be created with restricted visibility, thus
          #  lazylead can't find the issues. 
          jira_url: https://your.jira.com
          jira_user: theuser
          jira_password: thepass
          # The MS Exchange server details, please ensure that '/ews/Exchange.asm` 
          #  will be after your server url. Just change the url to your server.
          exchange_url: https://your.ms.exchange.server/ews/Exchange.asmx
          exchange_user: theuser
          exchange_password: the password
        volumes:
          - ./:/lazylead/db
        # db/ll.db is sqlite file with jira related annoying tasks
        entrypoint: bin/lazylead --sqlite db/ll.db --trace --verbose
    

    or just download the project using git

    git clone https://github.com/dgroup/lazylead.git ll && cd ll
    
  2. Create a container, using docker-compose -f .github/tasks.yml up The container will stop as there were no tasks provided:
    ll > docker-compose -f .github/tasks.yml up                                                         
    Creating lazylead ... done
    Attaching to lazylead
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Version: 0.5.0
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Memory footprint at start is 52MB
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Database: '/lazylead/db/ll.db', sql migration dir: '/lazylead/upgrades/sqlite'
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Migration applied to /lazylead/db/ll.db from /lazylead/upgrades/sqlite
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Database connection established
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] SMTP connection established with {host} as {user}.
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] WARN  [main] ll-001: No tasks found.
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Memory footprint at the end is 67MB
    lazylead exited with code 0
    ll > 
    
  3. Define your team and tasks in database. Yes, there are no UI yet, but its planned. Pull requests are welcome! The tables structure defined here. Modify you sqlite file(ll.db) using DB Browser or any similar tool. Please change the <youremail.com> to your email address in order to be in CC when developer get the notification:
    insert into teams (id, name, properties) 
               values (1, 'Dream team with lazylead', '{}');
    insert into systems(id, properties)    
               values (1,'{"type":"Lazylead::Jira", "username":"${jira_user}", "password":"${jira_password}", "site":"${jira_url}", "context_path":""}');
    insert into tasks  (name, schedule, enabled, id, system, team_id, action, properties)
               values ('Expired due dates', 
                       'cron:0 8 * * 1-5', 
                       'true',
                       1, 1, 1, 
                       'Lazylead::Task::AssigneeAlert',
                       '{"sql":"filter=555", "cc":"<youremail.com>", "subject":"[LL] Expired due dates", "template":"lib/messages/due_date_expired.erb", "postman":"Lazylead::Exchange"}');
        
    

    Yes, for task scheduling we are using cron here, but you may use other scheduling types from rufus-scheduler.

  4. Once you changed ./ll.db, please restart the container using docker-compose -f .github/tasks.yml restart
    ll > docker-compose -f .github/tasks.yml restart
    Restarting lazylead ... done
    

    check the logs and stop container if needed

    ll > docker logs lazylead
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Version: 0.5.0
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Memory footprint at start is 52MB
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Database: '/lazylead/db/ll.db', sql migration dir: '/lazylead/upgrades/sqlite'
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Migration applied to /lazylead/db/ll.db from /lazylead/upgrades/sqlite
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Database connection established
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] SMTP connection established with {host} as {user}.
    lazylead    | [2020-08-09T06:17:32] DEBUG [main] Task scheduled: id='1', name='Expired due dates', cron='0 8 * * 1-5', system='1', action='Lazylead::Task::AssigneeAlert', team_id='1', description='', enabled='true', properties='{"sql":"filter=555", "cc":"my.email@google.com", "subject":"[LL] Expired due dates", "template":"lib/messages/due_date_expired.erb", "postman":"Lazylead::Exchange"}'
    ...
    

How to contribute?

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Pull requests are welcome! Don’t forget to add your name to contribution section and run this, beforehand:

rake -A

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