Greetings!

May I propose evaluating an issue dependency visualization tool: Vivid Trace for JIRA

Atlassian Marketplace: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/vivid.trace/
Product site: https://vivid-inc.net/
Feature Tour in the product documentation: https://vivid-inc.net/docs/vivid-trace-for-jira/1.4/feature-tour.html

We make this tool, and one of our production goals from the very start is to support OSS projects, particularly ones tied to the successes in our careers like MySQL / MariaDB.

JIRA doesn't include issue link visualization, but according to the results of the JQL query "issue in hasLinks()", 4810 of the 13651 issues visible to me on this JIRA instance, or approximately 35%, have issue links, and 1184 of those are unresolved. With Vivid Trace, users will be able to quickly understand transitive issue dependencies and get more mileage out of this under-utilized issue linking function in JIRA with all sorts of benefits. Particularly to see blockers, blocked issues, root causes, nests of duplicates for quick resolution, for tracing chains of events, traceability on Epics, and so on and so forth.

In terms of an evaluation, you might like to compare and contrast alternatives, such as:

• https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.otpl.jira.plugins.lxp
• https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.docminer.jira.issue-links

Vivid Trace is designed in part to support OSS projects:

• Computing transitive issue relations is CPU intensive which is a tricky part of this class of JIRA plugin, and we have taken many measures to ensure that the JIRA server doesn't get hammered. Projects and people can turn visualizations on and off as desired. There are more improvements in the pipeline, and we are always on the lookout for more.
• Security permissions are upheld.
• The MariaDB JIRA instance version 7.2 is supported, and has an OSS license and so it qualifies for a free license from Atlassian for Vivid Trace. In any case, we (Vivid) can also provide you with a free OSS license separate from Atlassian.
• Actively developed, with OSS issue trackers in mind. The software has a favorable release policy of providing a good vintage of the version of your choice with point releases that fix all known defects without introducing new features.
• We provide you first-class support.
• With your permission, I'd like to periodically get your feedback for the purpose of improving the tool to better meet your needs.

Some of us have contributed code to MySQL and now MariaDB (collation and locale work, back in the teething days), we also shipped MySQL in several commercial products. So we have benefitted tremendously. And now we would be honored if our issue dependency visualization tool can be of service to the community.