JIRA`s blocking does not really block issues
24 Oct 2017
We thought that linking JIRA issue as blocking another one is really blocking from closing this another one. It`s obviously that blocked task cannot be resolved before blocking task is resolved, yep? But by default there is no functionality in JIRA to process blocking issues. Link statuses like is blocked by or blocks are just usual issue field value.
I can help you to solve this problem. It could be easy done with ScriptRunner for JIRA.
Go to your workflow configuration. Find the closing transition (we use Resolve transition), and add new condition “JQL query match” with this value:
NOT (issueFunction in hasLinks("is blocked by")) OR (issueFunction in hasLinks("is blocked by") AND issueFunction in linkedIssuesOf("status = 'RESOLVED'", "blocks"))
So, it means that transition of blocked issue cannot be performed if blocking issue status is not RESOLVED.