Introduction
What is it?
A simple Forge app to help keep your Jira instance clean. It offers an easy option to delete a project and all the associated schemes by one tap.
What does it do?
Project gardener for Jira enables you to do the following:
List all the schemes associated for a given project.
Delete individual schemes from the list of all schemes.
Delete the project, schemes together with a delete all button.
Why we built it?
At K15t, our teams are all curious experimenters at heart. We like to play around with the tools at our disposal so we can get the best out of them for our teams and customers, which includes experimenting with Jira. In addition, all of our teams extensively use Jira software and Jira Software Management to organize internal and external projects and customer requests. This results in frequent creation (and deletion) of Jira projects.
Deleting Jira projects seems straightforward on the face of it, but all Jira admins know that is only half of the story.
Graveyard of Inactive Schemes
When you delete a Jira project, the associated project schemes and configurations are not deleted simultaneously. Instead, they live in the “graveyard” of Jira configurations aka the inactive schemes tab. These include items like workflows, workflow schemes, issue type schemes, issue type screen schemes, screen schemes, screens, field configurations, field configuration schemes, statuses, notification schemes, permission schemes, and issue security schemes and can add up to be 25 items in total for a standard JSM project. The creation and deletion of Jira projects soon creates a huge mess of useless project schemes and configurations that clutters the entire instance.
Unfortunately deleting these schemes was a manual task, until now! Introducing “Project Gardener” by K15t, that automates the process of cleaning up the associated schemes and configurations with the deletion of the project.