Codegeist is closed! Now comes the fun part
Jonathan Nolen, Dir. of Developer Relations talks about CodegeistMarch 20, 2006
The first Atlassian Codegeist Plugin Competition closed yesterday, and we ended up with some terrific entries. Final stats from the contest:
- 31 new plugins were submitted.
- The plugins were written by 28 individual authors.
- 8 plugins are for JIRA,
- 22 plugins are for Confluence (one plugin at is targetted at both)
I couldn't be happier with the entries. They are truly impressive and are of far higher quality that I ever expected. The authors tackled some serious and substantive problems and solved them well. We clearly have some very smart users.
Now we enter the judging phase. We'll try to get this completed as quickly as possible, so keep watching here for news. We're all pretty excited about this, so hopefully we'll have the results in short order.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who entered. And even if you didn't submit a plugin of your own, you owe it to yourself to go check out the entries. There is some very useful stuff in there that you can start using today!*
* The submission pages are frozen as of today, but many of the authors are continuing to improve their plugins outside of the contest. So be sure to check the Plugin Libraries to make sure you have the most recent version of the plugins.
4 Comment(s)
Any chance we can vote? Perhaps we could use the Survey macro :-)
Personally, I would go for Metadata as it has the broadest use (see the Testplan plugin for the kinds of things that can utilise metadata.
By Jed Wesley-Smith at March 21, 2006 4:17 PM
The Dev Teams are going to judge the entries this time (since that's what I wrote in the Terms & Conditions). However, community voting is a good idea. I'm going to think hard about that for next time.
Cheers,
Jonathan
By Jonathan Nolen at March 21, 2006 4:24 PM
It would be fun to have a Confluence survey page separate from the competition. As a contestant I'd love to see how the community ranked the entries.
Next time it might make sense to have a separate award for the 'community favorite'. It could be just like Cannes. :-)
By Andy Armstrong at March 22, 2006 11:48 AM
I don't know that a community prize is a great idea (seems ripe for abuse and I would hate to see that) but I think it would be nice to see where people are using the different entries and their feedback. Certainly something the judges could take into account.
Anyone hoping to win a pass to TSSS in Vegas tomorrow? ;)
By Derek Seabury at March 27, 2006 9:18 AM