JIRA (software)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Question book-new.svg
 This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008)
Ambox PR.svg
 This article or section reads like a news release, or is otherwise written in an overly promotional tone. Please help rewrite this article from a neutral point of view. When appropriate, blatant advertising may be marked for speedy deletion with {{db-spam}}. (February 2009)
JIRA, Dashboard, Screenshot (de).png
Developer(s) Atlassian Software Systems
Initial release October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12)
Stable release 4.0 / 2009-10-06; 2 months ago[1]
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Bug tracking system, Project management software
License Proprietary, free for noncommercial
Website http://atlassian.com/software/jira

JIRA is a proprietary enterprise software product, developed by Atlassian, commonly used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. JIRA is used as a way to manage bug tracking for large-scale open source and public projects such as Linden Labs' Second Life and a related project called OpenSimulator.

Contents

[edit] History

JIRA has been developed since 2004. The product name, JIRA, is not an acronym but rather a truncation of "Gojira" (the Japanese name for Godzilla).[2]

[edit] License

Atlassian provides JIRA for free to open source projects, and organizations that are non-profit, non-government, non-academic, non-commercial, non-political, and secular.[3]

For commercial customers, the full source code is available under a developer source license.[3]

Starting with JIRA 4,[4] a 10-user starter license costs $10 with all proceeds benefiting Room to Read. Starter licenses are also available for Confluence, GreenHopper, Bamboo, FishEye and Crowd.[5]

[edit] Architecture

JIRA is written in Java and leverages the Pico IOC, ofbiz entity engine, and webwork 1 technology stack. For Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), JIRA supports SOAP, XML RPC, and has a Java API.[6]

JIRA integrates with source control programs (SCM) such as Subversion, CVS, Clearcase, Visual SourceSafe, Mercurial, and Perforce. It has support for English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.

JIRA has a plugin architecture and a large number of integrations developed by the JIRA development community and third-parties, including IDE's like Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA using the Atlassian IDE Connector. The JIRA API[6] is designed as an extensible way for developers to plug applications into JIRA.

[edit] Adoption in open source projects

Several developer groups have adopted JIRA in their projects,[7] among them JBoss,[8] Spring Framework,[9] Zend Framework,[10] Hibernate,[11] OpenSymphony,[12] Fedora Commons,[13] and Codehaus XFire.[14]

[edit] Adoption considerations

The Apache Software Foundation uses JIRA and Bugzilla.[15] Projects currently using Bugzilla have the option of migrating to JIRA at any time.[16]

In an evaluation in October 2006,[17] the official website of the Python programming language, considered a move from SourceForge to a different issue management system,[18] with Launchpad, JIRA, Roundup and Trac suggested as replacement systems. The discussion resulted in a decision for Roundup.[19]

In 2007, the Eclipse community discussed the replacement of Bugzilla with JIRA, but did not consider a switch because a migration would "cost" too much and no benefit could be seen and jira is not opensource.[20]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bug Tracking Evolved: Atlassian Announces JIRA 4". Atlassian. 2009-10-06. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091006005438&newsLang=en. 
  2. ^ "What does JIRA mean?". http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192544. Retrieved July 11 2008. 
  3. ^ a b "JIRA: Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/licensing.jsp. Retrieved 2009-09-18. 
  4. ^ "It's Back! Atlassian Relaunches Starter License Package to benefit Room to Read". Room to Read. 2009-10-07. http://blog.roomtoread.org/room-to-read/2009/10/its-back-atlassian-relaunches-starter-license-package-to-benefit-room-to-read.html. 
  5. ^ "Starter License". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/starter/. Retrieved 2009-10-06. 
  6. ^ a b JIRA Java API
  7. ^ "Atlassian JIRA Pricing". http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/customers.jsppublisher=Atlassian. Retrieved 2008-09-25. 
  8. ^ Jboss.org/
  9. ^ Springframework.org
  10. ^ Zend.com
  11. ^ Atlassian.com
  12. ^ Opensymphony.com
  13. ^ Fedora-commons.org
  14. ^ Codehaus.org
  15. ^ Apache.org
  16. ^ "ApacheJira". http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira. Retrieved 2008-09-25. 
  17. ^ Python.org
  18. ^ "PSF Infrastructure Committee's recommendation for a new issue tracker". python-dev mailing list. 2006-10-03. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html. 
  19. ^ "PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development". python-list mailing list. 2006-10-20. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-October/050355.html. 
  20. ^ "Bug 182067: Migrate bug track system to JIRA". Eclipse Bugzilla mailing list. 2007-04-12. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182067#c8. 
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIRA_(software)"