Out of curiosity, have you guys considered something like http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/connecting-jira-6-2-github/ ? Eg, in the RC4, CLJ-1161 was resolved, but there is nothing in the issue which shows how this was solved.

We are not using a version of JIRA new enough to use that (although I mostly tracked down the issues involved in the deeply painful upgrade process - will be looking at this again once the http://clojure.org switch is done)

I'm confused why you say nothing shows how it was solved though as there a description with extensive information at http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1161 and the patch that was applied

Mea culpa. There are two patches on the ticket. I missed the second one. To my excuse, I was browsing on my phone, and the correct patch is in a very small font.

it is, in fact, a very small patch :)

@alexmiller: those one line fixes are both incredibly frustrating, and incredibly satisfying once you track them down

that was at least 4 hrs, maybe more, before I had a good guess what was happening