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Atlassian’s documentation states that the Commit Checker requires Bitbucket and Jira to be integrated using Atlassian’s Application Links feature (as per the see screenshot below).
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Bitbucket's “Commit checker for Jira issues” feature checks (via the Application Link) all Jira issue IDs that were referred to in commit payloads but will only approve references to those issues that the committing user specifically has access to. MettleCI Workbench doesn’t authenticate with Bitbucket via a user account. It does so using an SSH Key which is typically granted access to the DataStage-relevant Bitbucket Project or, occasionally, the Organization level. Therefore, Bitbucket’s Commit Checker can’t perform its validation and triggers the rejection of the attempted commit.
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