Archives for Jonathan Nolen

Commit Acceptance Plugin 1.2 1.3

So I had intended to get this blog post written a month ago, but since I never got around to it, you get a double-shot of update goodness. I'm happy to announce the release of the JIRA Commit Acceptance Plugin version 1.2 and 1.3! The Commit Acceptance Plugin is a really useful tool for an active development team. As I said in my first post on the subject: We are heavy users of CVS and Subversion ourselves. Several years ago, when we wanted a better way to tie our version control changes into our

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Confluence 2.7 Milestone 2

With the beginning of the Confluence 2.7 development cycle, we've decided to trying something new: milestone releases. Every two weeks, we're rolling up a milestone release and putting it out through our Early Access Program. We're doing this for three reasons: It's good discipline for us to do frequent releases.It allows us to use these milestone releases on our internal system more easily.It gives plugin developers a head-start on upcoming changes. That last item is the primary reason I'm writing

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New JIRA Plugin: GreenHopper, for Agile Teams

One of the recurring religious debates in the agile community is paper cards vs. issue-tracking. One of our very own developers, Charles Miller, is a big fan of using paper cards for planning, although he is quick to note that the Confluence team uses cards in addition to JIRA, not in favour of. And I'll agree with him: there is a certain immediacy to seeing cards on a wall that helps my visual-learning, spatially-oriented brain more quickly understand the scope of the work in front of me. There

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JIRA and VSS: we need your help

If you've been watching the JIRA Plugin Library like a hawk, this post will come as no surprise to you. But in case you haven't, I have an exciting announcement. We've just released a beta version of the JIRA-VSS plugin that provide a mapping between JIRA Issues and Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe. This has been a long-requested feature (created in October '04, actually) for JIRA, and we're happy to finally be able to provide an solution. The JIRA-VSS plugin works in much the same way that our other

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Caching – Confluence Style

Special thanks to our guest blogger, Dan Hardiker from Adaptavist. Confluence in its naked, default form is nice, fast and responsive from the user's perspective – but load it up with a few too many plugins and a nice looking theme, and you can soon find yourself waiting eight to ten seconds for a page to load. The great developers at Yahoo! recently released YSlow, which works as a bolt-on for FireBug. This plugin analyses a webpage and compares the results to a set of performance enhancing

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