Welcome
to the final newsletter of 2006! We have some exciting news that wraps the year up in a handsome bow: Mike and Scott
were named Entrepreneur of the Year! Also
included in this issue... JIRA 3.7 released, Crowd is introduced, a treasure hunt in Confluence, putting spammers on
the outs, developer insight and much more. Happy
reading, happy holidays and a very happy new year!
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 Great
news—JIRA 3.7 just released! We would like to thank everyone who has downloaded
and tested 3.7 Beta 2, and extend special thanks to Neal Applebaum and Alexander Weiss for all their help.
As you might recall from last month's sneak peek, a
lot of effort in 3.7 was dedicated to developing Project Roles,
which should greatly simplify the task of JIRA administration. In addition to
Project Roles, JIRA 3.7 includes over 100 bug fixes and more
than 60 improvements and new features.
Download JIRA
3.7 now. Continue
reading this entry, or review the Release Notes.
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 A few months ago, I blogged about the
acquisition of
Authentisoft and their product IDX.
Three months later, we're happy to announce that IDX is now available as an
Atlassian product, Crowd. Justen
Stepka, co-founder at Authentisoft and lead developer on Crowd,
blogged about it here, too.
Crowd provides integrated logins across
JIRA, Confluence and the upcoming Bamboo products, as well as other enterprise applications like Cenqua
Fisheye and Jive's Forums and Wildfire. Crowd also
supports anything you want to connect it to. Out of the box there is a simple to use Java API that gives
you authentication (SSO) and authorisation support.
We are offering 30% off the product up until the 1.0 release which is going to be January 9th, 2007 (at
which time we'll do a more official announcement and press
release). As with all Atlassian products you will get one year of upgrades and support included.
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 We’re excited and proud to
share the news—our founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar were named Ernst & Young’s
Entrepreneur of
the Year for Australia! After first being named Ernst &
Young's Young
Entrepreneur of the Year in August, they qualified to be
in the running for the top honours.
Watch some video clips from the awards:
Read Mike's
reaction to being named Entrepreneur of the Year on his personal blog, rebelutionary.
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 I'm happy to
announce the official release of the terrific new Gliffy plugin for
Confluence. The Gliffy plugin lets you embed diagrams in a
Confluence
page for sharing and collaboration. Check out the short Gliffy video
tutorial that the Gliffy guys have put together. It shows the plugin in action.
At Atlassian, we're
already finding the Gliffy plugin indispensable. It
adds a whole new dimension to collaboration within teams. You can convey so much more by drawing, and now
you don't have to upload a Photoshop or Visio or MSPaint
file just to sketch a simple concept.
Continue reading...
Or go
right ahead and download
the Gliffy plugin for a free 30-day
trial.
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 One of
the tricky parts of introducing a wiki into an organisation is getting people in the habit
of using it. It's really a chicken-and-egg
scenario: without content,
the wiki is boring and no one uses it; if no one uses the wiki, no new content gets written.
A subtle ploy already employed when I joined Atlassian was getting
staff to record their timesheets in a personal space in Confluence. Not only is it an easy way to edit
and submit a timesheet, but it gets staff to create a personal
space and become familiar with editing wiki content.
Continue
reading
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 Lately
we've noticed the larger instances of JIRA and Confluence getting spammed and
we've been blogging to share and search for combat tools.
Confluence: We
released the CAPTCHA feature
for Confluence back in 2.2 and added a new plugin to the Confluence Plugin
Library that helps prevent spam. With the new Mark for Review
plugin, you can harness the many eyes of your users to spot bad
content and flag it for review by a trusted moderator. Continue
reading...
JIRA: For those of you maintaining a public JIRA instance and who are suffering from the
recent bout of comment spam, Jeff
has created a Confluence
space to collaborate on solutions, as well as a Subversion
repository for utilities. Continue
reading... |
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This month our developers were firing away on the blog front, sharing technical problems they
confronted and the
solutions discovered. Read all the entries directly on our Developer Blog.
Or, start reading a few of them right here:
Ajax bug in
Opera 9 and 9.0.1, fixed in 9.0.2: In my adventures with the new
charting plugin search request view, I discovered a nasty little bug yesterday. If you are making an
Ajax request and the result of that request is a redirect Opera 9
and 9.0.1 will not automatically follow the redirect and fill the result with the contents of the
redirected request. Instead it will provide you with a response with
an empty body and a response status of 302...
- Maven 1
Repository Changes: Maven 1 has recently started to produce a lot of 301 errors (after
attempting to download certain dependencies) when building a project with a
clean local repository. The reason for this is that the public Maven 1 repository is being moved to
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven from
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven...
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That's right, a treasure hunt in Confluence. It's such a cool idea we had to share this thread from
one of our open forums:
"hello, the company where i work uses
confluence. we are planning on an online treasure hunt amongst the employees. the hunt is played in the
following way..."
Continue reading in the Confluence Forum.
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 A
little-known feature in Confluence is that it provides suggested labels when you are editing content or
open the label edit controls at the top of a page.
Today I was adding some labels to my lesson plan for some internal Confluence training, and I noticed
this in the suggested labels: Suggested label:
zombie.
I'm not sure what I put into my lesson plan to get such a bizarre recommendation, but I did
discover something new. Atlassian
Zombie is a support tool developed by the JIRA team that will let you
restore JIRA data just from the Lucene search index in the event of a disaster. It literally does
bring your data back from the dead!
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Here are a few blogs and sites that we've been sharing around the office:
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 With offices in Sydney and
San Francisco, Atlassian is able to support our
customers in a wide range of requests nearly around the clock.
However, there are requests that go beyond our resources. In these cases, we call upon our outstanding and
creative Partners to meet the needs of our
customers.
From imaginative
Confluence design work to deep enterprise
integration with JIRA, our Partners work with you to quickly
and fully leverage your Atlassian investment.
To find an Atlassian Partner near you, check out our Partner directory.
If you have specific needs, you can contact our Partner team directly.
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Thanks for reading our newsletter this year. We wish
each of you a very happy holiday season and a joyous new year!
To our customers, all Atlassian
offices (including support) will be closed Monday, 25
December 2006 and the following Monday, New Year's Day 2007. Our Sydeny office will also be closed 26
December for Boxing Day.
Cheers!
Your
mates at Atlassian
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