Creating an Issue

In JIRA, click the blue "Create" button.

For Electrical issues, we want project to be Electrical (ELEC) and the Issue Type to be Story.
We want to fill out the following fields: (for explanations, see Using JIRA)

Field	Content	Example
Summary	[System] Very brief summary	[Confluence] Update MSXII block diagram
Description	Detailed description of the issue, possible causes/fixes/implementations	See pictures for detailed description of what needs to be updated
Assignee	User picker - either you or unassigned	Titus Chow
Epic Link	Corresponding epic	ELEC-9 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Sprint	Pick the currently active electrical sprint or leave it blank	ELEC Sprint 4
Original Estimate	Approximate estimate of the number of days it'll take	4d

Leave all other fields blank or as their default value.

You can see that the issue ELEC-151 - Getting issue details... STATUS has now been created. The assignee has been switched to Taiping Li, but this is otherwise a good example of what a JIRA issue should look like.
This issue number should be included in any commits that are made. Now that the issue has been created, just begin the JIRA workflow by clicking In Progress when you begin work.