Before jumping out of a plane, it's good to know how well your parachute is packed.
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I'd like to announce the latest version of the new Dynamic Task List 2 plugin for Confluence. This release features over 30 new features, enhancements and bug fixes. You can find more details here, but here is a quick overview:
Much more robust handling of task names: improved support for all character sets and for wiki markup, such as links, in task names.Permissions to modify a tasklist now match the permissions of the page the tasklist is onIssues with task lists not working in IE 6 &
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Just a note to let everyone know that we've released a new version of the JIRA Labels Plugin. The JIRA Labels Plugin gives you the ability to tag issues with arbitrary labels and then search for issues by label or view the most popular labels by project. This release is mostly about cleaning up various bugs that had been reported. For example, more validation is performed when labels are added to prevent invalid labels from being added and checks have been added to prevent users from editing labels
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Last week I posted part 2 Atlassian's Agile software development process. Part 1 was the week before. This week I deliver the next iteration. Update: part 4 now available.
Continuous Integration
Continuously building and automatically testing our software is essential for quality. We have many dozens of combinations of editions, distribution types and different versions of supported servers and JDKs on the subversion trunk as well as the stable branch. That's for each product. We need continuous
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The answer to "which operating system" is very similar to the one I give for "which database?" The best operating system for running Confluence is the one you have the most confidence administering.
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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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