A command line Jira client

1. Install the latest 3.11 Python from:

• https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Remember to click the "Add python to path" checkbox during the install
• Note: Python 3.12 doesn't seem to work at the moment because one of the pip modules doesn't support it properly and crashes

2. Open a git4win bash terminal and check the version of python available is the native windows one you just installed:

$ python --version
Python 3.11.7

3. Install the python modules required: pip install jira gitpython PyGithub windows-curses ttkthemes sv-ttk
4. Clone the jira command line repo:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/benstaniford/jira-command-line.git

5. Add the jira command to your .bashrc file:

• alias jira='python ~/jira-command-line/jira'
• Note: If it doesn't already exist, just create %USERPROFILE%\.bashrc and add the alias to it.

6. Restart bash and run jira to generate the template configuration

$ jira
Configuration file not found, generating template...
Please edit the configuration file and generate required PAT tokens for jira and github
Configuration file saved to: C:\Users\bstaniford\.jira-config\config.json

7. Generate PAT tokens for Jira and Github (Select github classic token and give it repo scope). Customise the configuration with the PAT tokens and your settings.
8. Re-run jira and you should now be able to use the command line tool. Initial commands to try are 's' to see the current sprint and 'l' to see the backlog.