Archives for Andreas Knecht

You’ve got issues! Now you can collect them.

Raising issues in JIRA is generally pretty straightforward if you have an account and are already logged in to JIRA.  It becomes quite a pain however if you're noticing a bug on a remote site somewhere and want to raise a bug in a JIRA instance that you're not currently logged in to or don't have an account on yet.  This is the problem that the issue collector addresses. Instead of having to: Navigate away from the site where the bug occurred Register for an account Log in to JIRA Find

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Wallboards of Shame

We've been using wallboards for ages now in the JIRA team to keep an eye on our builds. This worked well to give us an overall status of what builds are green and which builds are broken: It was a complete fail however when it came to assigning blame to the people that broke the build. Builds would stay red for a long time because no-one was looking into fixing them. So I took a 20% day to create a hacked up version of the standard Bamboo Plan gadget with the goal to show two more bits

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Getting your plugin ready for JIRA 4.4

In JIRA 4.4 we made some significant changes to the admin UI to improve navigation and general layout of the admin section in JIRA. All admin items have been re-grouped in a more logical manner and we’ve added quicknav to make it easy to navigate to an admin section from anywhere in JIRA. JIRA 4.4 also introduces a new admin summary page that provides a good overview of all the admin sections that are available. Users used to searching through the old mess of 75 links using their browser’s

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The A-Team’s first feature iteration for JIRA 4.3

At the team leads offsite we held recently, we discussed a new strategy to gather feedback from customers about features faster. I had the perfect feature on my roadmap - Configurable View Issue. In JIRA 4.1 we made some drastic changes to the view issue screen to provide a more streamlined and faster user experience when browsing issues. In JIRA 4.2 we took this concept further with dialogs, the operations dialog and some more tweaks on the view issue screen to make important information stand

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(Case Study) – Taming the JIRA 4.2 bug dragon!

The JIRA team uses a number of wallboards and information radiators to keep the entire team up to date about the current status of the project. We've been using them for quite some time however this blog is all about how we used them to get JIRA 4.2 out the door. Early on during the 4.2 release cycle we realised that we had introduced quite a few bugs with all the new UI work we'd been doing. Everyone on the JIRA team uses a shared dashboard showing the current state of 4.2. One of the charts on

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Creating issues from your iPhone

It's been a while since the last update but I've finally gotten around to working a little more on my 20% project, the JIRA iPhone web-interface. What is the iPhone web-interface? It's a plugins 2 plugin that can be deployed to a JIRA instance. Once deployed, any user accessing your JIRA instance will get redirected to a more iPhone friendly web-interface for JIRA. With the latest release (version 0.6) the following features are now available: Viewing Dashboards & Gadgets Creating Issues

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