New: [AEA-0000] - Tag jira when release is created

[anthony-nhs]

Summary

• Routine Change

Details

• add new optional params to update jira when a when release is created

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This PR is linked to a ticket in an NHS Digital JIRA Project. Here's a handy link to the ticket:

AEA-0000

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Pull request overview

Adds optional Jira issue tagging when a semantic-release run creates a release, controlled by workflow inputs/env vars.

Changes:

• Extend release.config.cjs to optionally run a new local semantic_release_jira plugin when UPDATE_JIRA=true.
• Introduce packages/semantic_release_jira plugin that discovers a Lambda via CloudFormation export and invokes it with release + ticket data.
• Update the reusable release workflow to accept Jira-related inputs and (attempt to) assume an AWS role for the Lambda invocation.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

File	Description
release.config.cjs	Adds env-gated inclusion of a local semantic-release plugin for Jira tagging.
packages/semantic_release_jira/index.js	New semantic-release success hook that extracts Jira keys from commits and invokes an AWS Lambda.
package.json	Adds AWS SDK clients needed by the Jira plugin.
.github/workflows/tag-release-devcontainer.yml	Adds inputs/env vars for Jira behavior and an AWS credentials step.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

.github/workflows/tag-release-devcontainer.yml:118

• The semantic-release config now references a local plugin (./packages/semantic_release_jira), but this sparse checkout does not include packages/semantic_release_jira, so the plugin code won’t be available at runtime and semantic-release will fail to load it. Include the plugin directory in the sparse checkout and ensure it’s copied/available in the working directory where semantic-release runs (or change the config to reference a resolvable module path).

                  sparse-checkout: |
                      package.json
                      package-lock.json
                      release.config.cjs
                      releaseNotesTemplates/commit.hbs

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