Add support for regex job filtering in Jenkins

Aha OK thanks for clarifying. I understand what you are looking for, but this is not something that can be created in the Jenkins side. For the synchronization process, the JIRA add-on uses the out-of-the-box default JSON API provided by Jenkins.

I have tried before to compliment this API, but this had a negative performance side-effect. So now the JIRA add-on simply uses the /api/json suffixed urls for synchronizing jobs and builds.

It should be possible to accomplish a similar effect by implementing this in the JIRA add-on, simply ignoring jobs that match a regex, like to stated for example.

I wouldn't say limit, but we have a number of odd jobs (lets say they all start with maintenance), that I'd like to omit from JIRA even knowing about because it's useless; no JIRA issue will be mentioned in their builds. For my example, I would go to the Jenkins admin page (http://<jenkins-url>/configure), and from there give a list of regular expressions I'd like omitted from the synchronization process.

I do understand that I can go to JIRA and 'disable' synchronization for some jobs but, to me, it feels more natural to do this in Jenkins.

Hi,

I'm not sure I follow fully. The newer versions of the Jenkins side plugin use a global build listener to trigger JIRA for synchronization. Then on the JIRA side, only enabled jobs will get synchronized, disabled jobs are simply ignored. So on the Jenkins side would not really help out I think.

Or are you looking for a way to limit the number of jobs shown on the configuration page?

Cheers,

Mark