Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
How it works…
JIRA uses OAuth as the authorization mechanism to retrieve data from Bitbucket. With
OAuth, the application that retrieves data is called the
consumer
, and the application that
provides data is called the
provider
.
Each consumer needs to be registered with the provider, which generates a key or secret
pair. We performed the registration in our first step by adding a new consumer in Bitbuck-
et:
If you do not see the
Commits
tab or section, make sure you have the
View Development
Tools
project permission.
Note
By default, members of the
Developers
project role have the
View Development Tools
permission.
