Make the JIRA service integration more flexible

We just started using Gitlab EE together with JIRA. We use Gitlab for repository management and code review. So, when a new merge request is created we wanna have the link in the JIRA issue. This work with the JIRA issue id in the merge request. That’s ok.

We need the JIRA issue id in every commit. So you can see all associated commits in the JIRA issue itself.

But every single commit (with JIRA issue id) is also pushed as comment to the JIRA issue. And every comment leads to an email to involved developers. Our developers wanna get emails for new comments. Maybe a reporter or another person comments an issue, so the developer should be informed. But every single commit is is really annoying. Unfortunately it is not possible to filter for comments of a specific user (in our case "gitlab").

What about a setting in the JIRA service whether all pushes and/or all merge requests should be pushed to JIRA?