Is there a way to have cross-project fixVersions in Jira?

Question

We have several, independent teams that have their own priorities and work. Yet the teams are all on the same code-base, so when we deploy, everyone's code goes out at the same time.

How have you dealt with this using Jira?

A couple of possibilities come to mind:

• if there were cross-project fixVersions, that would be ideal, as each release would be synchronized
• we could use tags and update all the filters everyone uses to segment what people see
• we could manually keep the fixVersions in sync, ug
• we could use their API to manage fixVersions, to keep them in sync
• something else entirely

Answer 1

There is an existing JIRA for this at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-2698 which you can vote for and wait patiently til the end of time.

There are a couple ghetto ways you could do this without coding:

• Have them share the same project, but use the Component dropdown to separate the work.
• Using the new Greenhopper at least you can have a cross-project sprint and then you'd just have to have a manually sync'ed up version across projects.