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Moving from Open Source To JIRA; Part 2: Customer Case Study

This is the second part of the two part series on making the switch from a Open Source issue tracker to JIRA, our commercial issue tracking tool. You can read part one (how to move) here. To find out what it's actually like to make the switch, I spoke with Preston Tollinger, who made the move about a year and a half ago. Preston is CTO of Cellfire, a US-based mobile software company that allows consumers to access coupons and deals from brand-name merchants nationwide, through their cell phone.

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Switching from Open Source to JIRA; Part 1: How?

  • By Jeff Leyser, Product Marketing Manager
  • About News
  • On December 30, 2008
Often times, we're asked about switching from an Open Source Issue Tracking tool to JIRA. This 2 part series will first look at the tools available to help you switch, and then we'll have a Case Study from a customer who made the switch. This time, let's talk about the "how": How do you make the switch? Conversion Tools Let's start with data migration. JIRA ships with data converters for both Bugzilla and Mantis., and they work in the same way: after setting some configuration parameters in the

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A Couple of JIRA Blog Links

  • By Jeff Leyser, Product Marketing Manager
  • About News
  • On December 12, 2008
Here's what a couple of other people have been writing about JIRA lately. First up, Julien Ponge writes about using Git & JIRA together to handle patches:So here is how it goes for those cases: I create a branch for each pending patch. The naming convention that I use is damn impressive: pending/JIRA-ID. Say that I need to work on IZPACK-163: I create a branch called pending/IZPACK-163. Julien is writing primarily about managing an Open Source project in his post, but his advice is useful to

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Announcing JIRA Studio 1.5

Atlassian is pleased to announce the release of JIRA Studio 1.5! The release features an upgrade to Confluence 2.10, improvements to searching, the ability to close issues via Subversion commit logs, and more! Upgrade to Confluence 2.10 The Confluence team recently released version 2.10 and we've updated JIRA Studio's Wiki to that release. With the Office Connector, a part of Confluence 2.10, you can view, import and embed Office documents directly in your Wiki pages. And the new widgets macro

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Telling the whole story

Milk & cookies. Peanut butter & jelly. Wine & cheese. Bug tracking & version control. OK, maybe that last one isn't quite as delicious as the others, but it's a natural pairing, too. Two tools, two datasets From the bug tracker, we get the "Why." Why is a code change necessary? In version control, you've got the "What." What did you change to address the issue? Putting these two things together gives you the full story, recorded for all time. Now, whenever you need it (release

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