JIRA (software)

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Developer(s) Atlassian Software Systems
Initial release October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12)
Stable release 3.13 / 2008-09-09; 10 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 deployed within public open source projects and has over 12,000 customers in over 100 countries.[citation needed] JIRA is widely used as a way to manage bug tracking for many large scale open source and public projects such as Linden Labs' Second Life, a related project called OpenSimulator and many others and is widely known in the developer community. This system is especially useful for large and/or public projects.

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[edit] History

JIRA has been developed since 2004. The product name, JIRA, may seem like an acronym, it's actually 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 version 3.13,[4] a free personal license is also available for non-commercial use.[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 a JAVA-API[6].

[edit] SCM Integration

JIRA integrates with source control programs (SCM) such as Subversion, CVS, Clearcase, Visual SourceSafe, Mercurial, and Perforce.

[edit] Multi-Language

JIRA has support for English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish.

[edit] Plugin Infrastructure

JIRA has a plugin architecture and a large number of integrations developed by the JIRA development community and third-parties. The JIRA API[6] is designed as an extensible way for developers to plug applications into JIRA.

[edit] IDE Integration

JIRA integrates with IDE's like Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA using the Atlassian IDE Connector.

[edit] Adoption in open source projects

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

[edit] Adoption considerations

The Apache Software Foundation uses JIRA and Bugzilla.[13] Projects currently using Bugzilla have the option of migrating to JIRA at any time.[14]

In an evaluation in October 2006, Python.org, the official website of the Python programming language, considered a move from SourceForge to a different issue management system,[15] with Launchpad, JIRA, Roundup and Trac suggested as replacement systems. The discussion resulted in a decision for Roundup.[16]

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.[17] In addition, JIRA is not open source software.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "JIRA 3.13 Release Notes". Atlassian. 2008-09-09. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+3.13+Release+Notes. 
  2. ^ "What does JIRA mean?". http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192544. Retrieved on July 11 2008. 
  3. ^ a b "JIRA: Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/licensing.jsp. Retrieved on 2009-01-05. 
  4. ^ "Let's get personal... JIRA and Confluence Personal Licenses". Atlassian. 2008-09-23. http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2008/09/lets_get_person.html. 
  5. ^ "Personal License". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/personal.jsp. Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  6. ^ a b JIRA Java API
  7. ^ "Atlassian JIRA Pricing". http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/customers.jsppublisher=Atlassian. Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  8. ^ http://jira.jboss.org/
  9. ^ http://jira.springframework.org/
  10. ^ http://jira.opensymphony.com/
  11. ^ https://fedora-commons.org/jira/
  12. ^ http://jira.codehaus.org/
  13. ^ http://issues.apache.org/
  14. ^ "ApacheJira". http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira. Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  15. ^ "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. 
  16. ^ "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/410004.html. 
  17. ^ "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. 
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