todo-jira-sync 1.2.0

Bidirectionally sync a Jira project with a Todo+ (vscode-todo-plus) text file.

todo-jira-sync

Bidirectionally sync a Jira project with a Todo+ plain-text file — the format used by the vscode-todo-plus extension. Edit your backlog as a flat, version-controllable text file in your editor while having things sync in Jira.

Scaffolded from tedivm/robs_awesome_python_template conventions (uv, pyproject.toml, Typer, Pydantic Settings, Ruff, mypy, pytest, GitHub Actions).

Mapping rules

Each non-blank, non-comment line maps to one Jira issue, by indentation and the trailing colon:

Todo+ line	Jira issue type
ends with :, no leading indent	Epic
ends with :, indented	User Story
a task (☐ / ✔ / ✘ …)	Task
a task nested under another task	Sub-task

Authentication:                 ← Epic
  Login flow:                   ← Story    (parent: Authentication)
    ☐ Build the login form      ← Task     (parent: Login flow)
    ☐ Add OAuth providers       ← Task     (parent: Login flow)
      ☐ Google provider         ← Sub-task (parent: Add OAuth providers)
  ☐ Password reset email        ← Task     (parent: Authentication)

A node's Jira parent is its nearest enclosing container: a Task takes the Story it sits under, or the Epic if there is no enclosing Story; a Story takes its Epic; a Sub-task takes the Task it sits under.

Status mapping

Todo+ symbol	Status	Jira category
☐ [ ]	To Do	new
@started(...)	In Progress	indeterminate
✔ ✓ [x]	Done	done
✘ [-] @cancelled	Cancelled	done + cancelled status name

Jira has no "cancelled" status category; cancelled is detected by status name (configurable via CANCELLED_STATUS_NAMES).

How identity works

Each synced line gets a @jira(KEY) tag written back into the file (inserted before the trailing colon for projects, so it still reads as a project):

Authentication @jira(WEB-1):
  ☐ Build the login form @jira(WEB-3)

That tag is the stable anchor — rename a line freely and the link survives.

Install

Requires Python ≥ 3.10. Using uv:

uv venv
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

or with pip:

python -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Configure

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in your details:

cp .env.example .env

For Jira Cloud, create an API token at https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens and set JIRA_EMAIL + JIRA_API_TOKEN with JIRA_AUTH=basic. For Server/Data Center, use a personal access token with JIRA_AUTH=bearer.

Use

# See what would happen — touches nothing:
todo-jira-sync status --todo todo.todo --project WEB

# Full bidirectional sync:
todo-jira-sync sync --todo todo.todo --project WEB

# One-way only:
todo-jira-sync push    # local file -> Jira (never edits the file)
todo-jira-sync pull    # Jira -> local file (never creates/edits Jira)

# Conflict policy when both sides changed the same field:
todo-jira-sync sync --conflict jira   # jira | todo | skip

A JSON sidecar todo.todo.todojira.json is written next to your file. It is the 3-way-merge baseline (the common ancestor) — keep it, but it need not be committed (it is git-ignored by default).

How sync decides (3-way merge)

For each issue the engine compares the live file and live Jira against the baseline from the last run:

• only the file changed → push to Jira
• only Jira changed → pull into the file
• both changed the same field → conflict, resolved by --conflict
• new in file → created in Jira (parents first)
• new in Jira → pulled into the file (under the right parent)
• gone from Jira but known → kept locally and reported (never silently lost)

The engine never deletes Jira issues and never deletes local lines.

Docker

A multi-stage, uv-based image is included. It builds the package into a slim runtime image whose entrypoint is the CLI, running as a non-root user.

# Build (VERSION is only needed because versioning comes from git tags):
docker build --build-arg VERSION=0.1.0 -t todo-jira-sync .

# Run against a working directory that holds your todo file and .env:
docker run --rm --env-file .env -v "$PWD:/work" todo-jira-sync \
  sync --todo todo.todo --project WEB

Or via Compose (put your todo file and .env in ./work):

docker compose run --rm sync status
docker compose run --rm sync sync --todo todo.todo --project WEB

Prebuilt multi-arch images (amd64 + arm64) are published to GitHub Container Registry by CI on version tags (and on demand via the workflow's manual trigger).

Releasing

Versioning is derived from git tags via setuptools-scm. Pushing a tag like v0.1.0 triggers two workflows: one builds the sdist/wheel and publishes to PyPI (via OIDC Trusted Publishing — no API token stored), the other builds and pushes the multi-arch container image. CI (ci.yaml) runs ruff, mypy and pytest on a Python 3.10–3.14 matrix for every push and PR.

Develop

make check     # ruff + mypy + pytest
make test

The sync core (config, models, todo_format, state, sync) is pure standard library, so the tests run against an in-memory fake Jira with no network and no live credentials. The two test files also run standalone:

python tests/test_todo_format.py
python tests/test_sync.py

License

MIT — see LICENSE.