IE7 on Vista and SSL
We recently had a problem where a customer wasn’t able to access Jira via SSL from IE7 on Windows Vista (and IE 5.5 on WinNT although we never got to test that). Firefox worked fine. IE7 from Windows XP worked fine. The customer was using a self-signed certificate which is perfectly fine, since the browser […]
Bamboo Notifications Screen
On the Jira team we have an old tradition to let the Confluence team tackle new things and steal their ideas if they end up working out. We’ve recently had a couple of problems when developers would keep committing code if the builds are broken on Bamboo. We generally aim to stop all commits until […]
Bamboo has Jira covered
We recently installed the latest Bamboo Code Coverage plugin on our internal Bamboo build box for Jira. This plugin was contributed via our Codegeist competition. After using it for a little while I have to say it’s an incredibly useful tool. The coverage tests run once a week. Currently this only accesses unit test coverage, […]
ShipIt V – Sage 2.0
Problem Sage is our search engine that powers http://search.atlassian.com/. It currently looks like this: It’s not really very much of a search engine, as it simply collates results from several different resources (e.g. Confluence docs, Jira bugs, Jive forum threads, etc) in a nice format. Whilst the initial interface currently available on http://search.atlassian.com/ has served […]
Full Speed Ahead
Recently we’ve been getting a lot of critical load notifications from contegix about our internal Bamboo build box for Jira. This is pretty much normal as we’ve got a lot of builds on Bamboo, and every check-in to subversion triggers a whole flood of different builds. We did start to run out of physical memory […]
4 more days in a leaky boat
Random Mortal Combat quote: Sonya Blade: A handful of people on a leaky boat are gonna save the world? Lord Rayden: Exactly. Another month and more memory problems for one of our products. “Let mortal combat begin” The Jira 1.5 JVM (and more recently 1.6 as well) functional tests started running out of memory last […]
US Daylight Savings changes in 2007
In 2007, the US has planned a change to it’s daylight savings time schedule. This may cause problems with Java applications (such as Jira and Confluence) that rely on dates and times. The effect of this will be that times reported in Jira or Confluence may be 1 hour off the real time for certain […]
Code Signing the Jira installer
So we started work on the Jira installer for Windows this week. Amongst the heap of tasks involved in this activity, there was one little task labeled ‘Get code-signing certificate to stop windows warning about security of unknown publisher’ with an estimate of 1h. A little ambitious I thought at first. Then again we already […]
Jira uberbox
At Atlassian we believe in eating your own dogfood. We’ve therefore setup Bamboo to continuously build and integrate our own products. Over time we keep adding new types of builds (plugins, tools, etc) and existing builds start taking more time (number of testcases increases, more CPU intensive testcases, etc). We therefore decided to setup a […]
Maven 1 repository changes
Maven 1 has recently started to produce a lot of 301 errors (after attempting to download certain dependencies) when building a project with a clean local repository. The reason for this is that the public Maven 1 repository is being moved to http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven from http://www.ibiblio.org/maven. Maven 1 doesn’t understand redirects and therefore reports a 301 […]