Synchronize gTimeLog to Jira

This simple script will read your timelog.txt file populated by gtimelog and will submit work log entries to Jira, via Jira API.

Usage

In order to synchronize your most recent entries to Jira, simply run:

gtimelog2jira

By default, this command will synchronize entries created 7 days ago up to now.

You can control what time period you want to synchronize using the --since parameter:

gtimelog2jira --since 2000-01-01

You can also synchronize all entries of a single issue:

gtimelog2jira --issue FOO-007

When --issue is specified and --since is not provided, the script will look all entries containing the specified issue ID since the beginning.

If you want to limit the time interval, specify --since.

If you want to test things, without creating work log entries on Jira, you can use the --dry-run flag:

gtimelog2jira --dry-run

This way nothing will be sent to Jira, the script will instead show what it would do.

Configuration

By default, gtimelog2jira reads configuration from the ~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc file. Configuration file example:

[gtimelog2jira]
jira = https://jira.example.com/
username = [email protected]
password =
timelog = ~/.gtimelog/timelog.txt
jiralog = ~/.gtimelog/jira.log
projects =
  FOO
  BAR
  BAZ
include =

[gtimelog2jira:aliases]
# catch-all issue for all billed work not attributable to a specific ticket
FOO-MISC = FOO-1234

If the password is not specified, script will prompt to enter password interactively. (If you also have the python-keyring package installed, the password will be remembered in your system keyring so you will not have to enter it again.)

projects option should list all project prefixes. These prefixes will be used to identify Jira issue IDs. If the script does not find anything that looks like a Jira ID, it will skip that entry.

include can be a list of all allowed issues, if you want to use a separate set of Jira tickets for time-keeping purposes. Each work entry then should list the time-keeping issue next to the real issue (FOO-xxx, FOO-yyy), and the include option should list all the time-keeping tickets. Aliases can be used here.

TODO

• Pagination is not supported when reading existing worklogs from Jira.
• Script does not handle situations when timelog.txt or Jira worklog entries are modified manually. The script simply checks if existing Jira worklog entries overlap the time ranges of timelog.txt entries, and if not, then new worklog entries are created. If there is an overlap, then entries are not created, even if the overlap is not exact.