Archives for Jonathan Nolen

JIRA Labels Plugin 2.0

We recently completed a major overhaul of the JIRA Labels Plugin with a primary focus on stability and performance. New Atlassian Developer, Rich Wallace (p.s. we're hiring java developers in San Francisco!) spent several days cleaning things up, and the plugin is more stable and about 1000x faster. We've optimized the heck out of our Lucene usage, and we've cut down our javascript library dependencies to a bare minumum. In case you haven't run across it before, the JIRA Labels Plugin implements

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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. This is a fairly big jump, and a great many methods have been deprecated or removed by Lucene. So that means that if your JIRA plugin uses or depends on Lucene, it almost certainly will not work

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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 Bob Bargemen came forward with a new and improved Tasklist Macro, I jumped on it. We worked with Bob to tweak the new tasklist and add a couple of important features, and

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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 usually inherit the styles of the Confluence page, in addition to adding their own CSS. Since that core CSS has changed, macro plugins may now look inconsistent or

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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 useful first because it's bookmarking: a simple way to save something for yourself and come back to it later, but stored on the web and not tied into a specific browser on one machine. But

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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 work on any of the different services. You should probably choose your favourite and use it from now on. Any new accounts that are created will only be created once and work

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