We have self hosted GitLab CE and Jira, we want
but only GitLab EE built-in supports Jira integration, how could I do that for GitLab CE?
I'm on GitLab CE 7.8.2, Jira+Agile 6.4
I think there is now a better way:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/integrations/jira.html
GitLab can be configured to interact with JIRA. Configuration happens via user name and password. Connecting to a JIRA server via CAS is not possible.
Each project can be configured to connect to a different JIRA instance, see the configuration section. If you have one JIRA instance you can pre-fill the settings page with a default template. To configure the template see the Services Templates document.
Once the project is connected to JIRA, you can reference and close the issues in JIRA directly from GitLab.