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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]