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Atlassian Foundation helps save the planet

It's a little known fact that Atlassians have green blood. You could cut one to see, but that's probably not a good idea. Especially if the Atlassian concerned is holding our weapon of choice, the long-handled lopper. A few days ago, a group of us went out to help Conservation Volunteers Australia save the planet. Our mission: To rid (a small part of) Lane Cove National Park of the noxious weed, privet. Privet, like many other non-native plants, simples loves Australia. It's taking over

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New JIRA 5.0 tutorials from the Atlassian doc sprint

The Atlassian technical writers and thirteen developers recently combined forces in a doc sprint. The aim? To develop plugin tutorials that will help people use the upcoming JIRA 5.0 Java APIs. The result is eleven shiny new tutorials and plenty of updates to existing pages. The indomitable doc sprinters were based in Sydney, San Francisco and Gdansk. We got together in chat rooms, in video conferences and on the wiki. What is a doc sprint? A doc sprint is an event in which people get together

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How to edit the Atlassian developer documentation

The Atlassian Developers site has a shiny new look, improved tutorials and pretty pictures. Is that Confluence I see before me? Yes, and the shiny new look is thanks to the Zen Foundation theme. The Zen editing experience is a bit different to the standard Confluence themes. Here is a quick start guide. 1. Log in If you don't yet have a username and password, please sign up for the Atlassian Contributor License Agreement. Once you have a username, click the login link and follow the prompts. 2.

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JIRA 4 Essentials – a book by Patrick Li

I recently finished reading the book JIRA 4 Essentials by Patrick Li. It is a very useful quick-start guide to Atlassian JIRA for administrators. I think you will also find it interesting if you are a JIRA user without administrative powers, because it shows you how to set up your own JIRA site. You can even run JIRA on your PC. Imagine using your own tame JIRA to learn what goes on behind the scenes and see what power those administrators really have!Patrick Li is co-founder of AppFusions, an engineering

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Practical JIRA Administration – a book by Matt Doar

I've just finished reading Practical JIRA Administration by Matt Doar. The book is a collection of best practices from a JIRA expert. It's as if Matt sits you down by the fire and says, "Let me tell you what really matters about JIRA". It's the birds and the bees talk, for JIRA. Matt Doar is eminently qualified to write this book. He knows JIRA inside out. He writes plugins to extend JIRA functionality, runs a software tools consultancy called Consulting Toolsmiths, and is a frequent contributor

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Translating the documentation for JIRA, Confluence and other Atlassian applications

At Atlassian, we're spreading our wings into other countries. We recently launched Atlassian Translations where people can collaborate to translate the user interface for JIRA, Confluence and other applications into the language of their choice. The new localised website pages are a great start to providing relevant content in people's own languages. What about translations of the documentation? Dedicated Atlassian partners and other community members have translated parts of our documentation into

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