Jira 3.11 EAP
We have just released a Developer Preview build of Jira 3.11 as part of our Early Access Program. This new build is for the benefit of plugin developers so that they can make their plugins ready for Jira 3.11. This developer preview is vitally important. In Jira 3.11, we upgraded Lucene from 1.9 to 2.2. […]
Announce new plugin, Dynamic Tasklist 2. Check!
I wanted to point out to everyone a brand new plugin we just released, Dynamic Tasklist 2. We’ve had two tasklist macros in Confluence for a long time, {dynamictasklist} and {tasklist} but they were both fairly limited. I use tasklists in Confluence all the time, and I was ferquently frustrated. So when Developer Network member […]
Confluence 2.6 Developer Release 1
I just back from a wonderful summer vacation, but I wanted to highlight this developer release announcement that we posted on the Confluence Developer mailing list a few weeks ago: There have been small but significant changes to the CSS that styles all of Confluence. We’ve modified the typography and layout in fundamental ways. Macros […]
un.del.icio.us
One of the more useful things that we do to collaborate inside Atlassian is use a group del.icio.us feed to share bookmarks to everyone else in the company. On their first day, every employee signs up for at least two different feeds: the staff-blogs feed and the shared bookmarks feed from Delicious. Social bookmarking is […]
Developer Network is reopened for business
All of our services: Jira, SVN, Fisheye and Bamboo are all running on a Crowd backend now. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to actually merge everyone’s various accounts — so if you had a ‘jnolen’ account in SVN and a ‘jonathan@atlassian.com’ in Jira before (for example), you still have both usernames. But now both accounts will […]
Developer SVN and Jira will be offline for maintenance
Heads up, everyone. We’re going to be taking the Developer Network Jira and SVn offline for a while starting this afternoon (1pm PDT). We’re moving our developer network infrastructure over to Crowd-based authentication, so once we’re finished you’ll only have one username and password to remember! Well, technically you’ll still have different credentials for Confluence.atlassian.com […]
Architecture Diagrams
In an effort to answer a question last week, support engineer Jeremy knocked up this quick diagram of the Jira architecture to aid in his explanation. (N.B.: The diagram was later enhanced by some helpful developers.) Later, someone asked a Charles a question about the Confluence architecture. He also answered with a helpful diagram.
Gliffy 1.3 Released!
The guys over at Gliffy have released an update to their Gliffy Confluence Plugin, that lets you create diagrams directly inside a Confluence page. The new version contains lots of useful improvements, chief among them “vastly improved performance.” That’s always a nice thing to see. Other enhancements include a new document manager that allows you […]
Jira Codegeist Winners; Codegeist Community Award
This year, we had the more entries in the Jira category than any of the other product categories. It was quite a surprise, given last year’s contest, where Confluence lead Jira by more than double. But who can truly fathom the mysteries of an open-source developer community? They build what they want to build : […]
Codegeist Winners: Crowd
The Crowd team — Justen, Justin and Shihab — looked through the four Crowd entries and selected our first and second place winners. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Crowd JAAS Login Module by Brad Harvey. The Crowd team was very impressed by the quality of this submission. The archietcture was smart, […]
Codegeist Winners: Confluence
This year there were fourteen new Confluence plugins entered in Codegeist. The quality was universally high and the competition was fierce. There were some truly impressive entries. First Place The winner of the First Place, and $4,000, is the CheckLists Plugin by Roberto Dominguez of Comala Technologies. It implements a set of macros to generate […]
Codegeist Winners: Bamboo
The product development teams each spent an afternoon last week reviewing in detail all of the Codegeist entries. And I’m going to announce all of the winners this week, starting with Bamboo today. We had seven excellent Bamboo plugins entered in Bamboo’s first year in the contest. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to […]
What are you waiting for?
Tommi Laukkanen was one of our most prolific Codegeist entrants this year — submitting four individual plugins, each of which was very cool. I was even more impressed after reading his blog entry about the process where he reveals that these were the first Atlassian plugins he had ever written! He writes about the experience: […]
Codegeist Judging Update
I just wanted to drop a note and let you know that the judging for Codegeist II is progressing well. The development teams have been impressed and pleased with the quality of the entries so far. We’ll have the results ready to announce next week, so stay tuned. The t-shirts should be back from the […]
Codegeist Community Award
We’ve decided on a last minute addition to Codegeist II: the Codegeist Community Award! We’re going to offer an additional $1,000 cash prize to one entry selected by the Atlassian community. Anyone can vote (you have to be a registered Confluence user). Review the entries on the submissions page. You can see an overview with […]