Deleting issue from GH

[lgecse]

As deleting a comment from an issue has some problems, it made me think:

• How is being handled when we just delete an issue from GH?
• How does it work, when the issue had comments?

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Explanation: the question is about the current flow. Given a situation, when a GH issue was synced to Jira already. What should we do when the source GH issue is being deleted from GH? There is a leftover Jira task, that we could potentially:

• delete the corresponding Jira task with all it's comments, reflecting the change in Jira
• update the corresponding Jira task's description, marking it "has been removed from GH"
• leave everything as-is

I think it's not crucial to answer this yet, but we might have to solve this edge case later.

[rappizs]

@lgecse we only create and update Jira issues, we don't delete them. IMO this would be a nice feature to remove deleted issues from Jira as well.

[justaugustus]

Recall from the README that:

Note that gh-jira-issue-sync works only one way and will NOT mirror issues from Jira to GitHub.

What you're looking for is a two-way sync or a mechanism that will maintain state and those are both non-goals for this project.

[rappizs]

We are talking about removing Jira tickets if an issue has been deleted on GitHub. This is still one way (sync GH to Jira) and could be a new feature in the tool. Right now if we delete an issue from GH it will remain abandoned in Jira.