Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Best of JIRA 2010

The Year in ReviewSimilar to the GreenHopper and Confluence teams, 2010 was a very exciting year for the JIRA team.  We doubled the size of the dev team - forcing us to move into a new building across the street - adding a new skillsets and evolving new roles. The team adopted Scrum, with 2-week iterations, providing more frequent releases and several public milestones. This allowed us to engaged with more customers than ever and ensure our two big JIRA releases were packed with great new

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15 Cool Plugins of 2010

We're fortunate to have an amazing developer ecosystem building useful and powerful Atlassian plugins, each plugin providing additional functionality and features that make our products better. In the spirit of the new year, I thought I'd share a few cool plugins that were introduced in 2010. But creating a short list of cool plugins is about as hard as choosing between a Ferrari and a Lamborghini. My original plan was to highlight five cool plugins, but after looking at download statistics, customer

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The Best of GreenHopper 2010

It's been a productive year for GreenHopper. Let's take a look at what the team has accomplished in the past 12 months. The year of seven releases Appropriately, the GreenHopper team is the most agile at Atlassian, a fact that is reflected in their densely-packed release timeline from 2010: UI Evolution The face of the GreenHopper card has undergone some drastic changes in the past year. With the 5.3 release, we arrived at the current design, which improves on the clean look of GreenHopper 5's

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JIRA 4.2 Deep Dive – Keyboard Shortcuts

This post is the third in a series of "deep dives" into the latest version of JIRA. The first posts talked about the JIRA experience and operation dialogs.  Stay tuned to the JIRA Blog for more details on JIRA 4.2.JIRA keyboard shortcuts were introduced for global navigation and issue actions in JIRA 4 and 4.1, respectively.  In this latest release, we really took mouse-less productivity to another level by introducing the operations dialog and extending keyboard controls to the issue search

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JIRA 4.3 Milestone 3 – Dashboards and Gadgets

  • By pslade, Senior Development Manager
  • JIRA
  • On December 23, 2010
JIRA 4.3 EAP 3 has left the building just in time for Christmas.   Faster Dashboards In this milestone build you will see our efforts around improving the performance of the dashboard. The dashboard is the first page you go to in JIRA and it is the information hub. It should be as fast we can make it. In EAP 3 we improved dashboard performance by 29% and for large dashboards, the performance improvement is 35%.   Gadget Subscriptions With a recent upgrade to the underlying JIRA

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