reverse-engineering

Everyone knows Jira, an Atlassian product where you work with tickets (issues). They have a handy extension to VS Code that (among other things, including Bitbucket support) lets you view tickets inside code editor and have a preview of them, when you hover issue ID in code. However, for quite some time that official extension does not work with managed Jira instances in random places, especially with ticket previews. Stubborn as always, I went on a quest to identify what’s going on and found a plethora of issues in multiple projects; however, the culprits are typical ones - lazy changelog keeping, improper testing, chained bugs and reliance on Open-Source community.