We would like to use Jira Automation to, upon the creation of a branch in Gitlab, assign the corresponding issue in Jira to the user who created the branch. This means that there needs to be some way to translate the Gitlab user into the Jira user. This is already being done elsewhere: when using the GIJ repository browser in Jira, the most recent commit to the currently viewed branch is listed at the top, along with a username. A Jira username. Meaning, when someone makes a commit in Gitlab, GIJ somehow already manages to match that Gitlab user to the corresponding user in Jira. (I suppose it helps that both Gitlab and Jira use the same AD on our end.) So perhaps GIJ could provide something that the Jira Automation action "assign issue" can understand, such as feeding it the "user that triggered the event", or providing a custom smart value that can be manually referenced there.