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The Atlassian Technical Writers aren't clairvoyants, neither can we use The Force, but those would be really handy abilities in the documentation profession.
For the last 3-4 weeks the JIRA team has been following a development process where we are allowed to check in...when the build is broken.
Heresy...lunacy...insanity...
Well it turns out that it helps keep the build green.
And here is why...build latency.
I am defining build latency as the time from checking-in a change, finding out your broke the build and then checking in another change and knowing that you have fixed the build.
4 Months Ago
About 4 months ago our development process rule was
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Like surviving in a tropical jungle, to an extent you must give yourself over to the environment, rather than trying to fight it.
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Atlassian is gearing up for this year's AtlasCamp -- our second annual developer camp. Last year's camp was an amazing, inspirational time, and this year's event will be even better:
We're extending AtlasCamp 1/2 a day longer than last year, to fit in even more great content.
We're building in lots more free time to meet people, collaborate on projects, and get help from the Atlassians there.
We've launched some amazing new technologies since last year (Plugins 2, OSGi, Open Social, JQL, Social
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Atlassian supergeeks have been happily engrossed in creating a brand new Atlassian Plugin SDK, to be ready for Codegeist and then to be hyperpolished for AtlasCamp. I'm the lucky technical writer who got to document the SDK. This has been such fun – yes, really – that I decided to write a blog post about it.
We want to make it easy peezy to get a basic plugin built and installed into a local version of JIRA, Confluence or another Atlassian application. Then plugin developers can concentrate
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