How do you guys generally deal with custom fields (open source version if it matters)?
Specifically, I want to store, for an issue, in a machine readable way where it was from (like a forum url), and who posted it. This way, when an issue gets resolved, I can make a bot post a reply when it’s resolved on the forum post it came from.
For discrete picklist values, I use scoped labels, e.g. for issue type, workflow status and priority. Not found a good way to store semi-structured free-text metadata yet though. Could maybe define a magic string to use in the body of issues that a bot can look for and parse in order to get the info that follows it? Not ideal, but can’t see any reason it couldn’t work if properly documented.
This is what I ended up doing btw, use a magic string.