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Enterprise Level Wiki and Issue Tracker For $5 Each

Jim Priest — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:24:09 +0000

Check out the Atlassian Stimulus Package!

$5 / 5 days – get…

JIRA ( Issue tracker – 5 users )
Confluence ( Wiki – 5 users )

So for a whopping $10 you can have an enterprise level bug tracking and documentation system in place!

They are raising money for Room To Read…

Who help improve education in the developing world by establishing libraries, schools and more.

This was announced on Monday and they’ve already reached their $25,000 goal!

On the Atlassian Developer blog Adrian Hempel has a nice write up on how you can Setup Jira and Confluence in Minutes by running in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Developer Toolbox: JIRA Personal License

Jim Priest — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:02:35 +0000

Tonight I was digging around on the Atlassian site and for some reason just noticed they offer free personal licenses for many of their products.

JIRA

three registered users with full access and unlimited anonymous visitors

Confluence (wiki)

two registered users with full access and unlimited anonymous visitors

Main restriction is the number of users (noted above) and that it needs to be used for personal reasons.

Community and Open Source
They also have a free “Community & Open Source” license available which rocks. Community licenses are designed for organizations which are:

non-profit,
non-government,
non-academic,
non-commercial,
non-political and
secular

The Open Source license has very few restrictions as well:

Established code base
Publicly available project website
Using an approved open source license
Your JIRA instance will be publicly accessible

I’ve been really impressed with JIRA and Confluence at work. If you want a suite of top notch products to manage your personal files or Open Source project I’d certainly check out Atlassian.

Integrating JIRA and SVN Using bugtraq Properties

Jim Priest — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:15:24 +0000

Here at work we are using JIRA for bug/issue tracking, most of the developers also use Eclipse and everyone is using Subversion (TortoiseSVN).

I was digging through one of the SVN books and came across a bugtraq property. A bit of Googling turned me onto a great tutorial by Mark Phippard (project lead for Subclipse):

Integrating Subversion with your Issue Tracking System

This is one of those simple tweaks that makes your life much easier as a developer. After adding the properties outlined in Mark’s tutorial:

bugtraq properties

Now in my commit dialog I get a text area to enter my JIRA key:

Subclipse dialog w/JIRA KEY prompt

Since I have Mylyn installed – when I hover over the link in the SVN History view I get two choices:

Open with options

So now I can open the task in Mylyn or if I select the hyperlink option it opens in the Eclipse browser.

Mylyn View