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Developer(s) Atlassian Software Systems
Stable release 5.0 / 22 February 2012; 17 days ago (2012-02-22)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Bug tracking system, project management software
License Proprietary, free for use by official non-profit organizations, charities, classrooms, and open-source projects, but not religious organizations[1]
Website atlassian.com/software/jira

JIRA (/ˈdʒɪərə/ JEER-ə)[2] is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian, commonly used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. The product name, JIRA, is not an acronym but rather a truncation of "Gojira", the Japanese name for Godzilla.[3] It has been developed since 2002.[4]

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[edit] License

JIRA is a commercial software product that can be licensed for running on-premises or available as a hosted solution. Pricing depends on the maximum number of users, with approximately $50 per user for in-house and $7 per month per user for the hosted version being typical prices.[5]

Atlassian provides JIRA for free to open source projects that meet certain criteria, and organizations that are non-profit, non-government, non-academic, non-commercial, non-political, and secular.

For academic and commercial customers, the full source code is available under a developer source license.[5]

Starting with JIRA 4, a 10-user starter license costs $10 with all proceeds benefiting Room to Read.[6] Starter licenses are also available for other Atlassian products that can integrate with JIRA, such as Confluence, GreenHopper, Bamboo, FishEye and Crowd.[7]

[edit] History

  • JIRA 1:
    • released in 2002[8]
  • JIRA 3:
    • 3.0, released 12 October 2004[9]
    • 3.13, released 9 September 2008[10]
  • JIRA 4:
    • 4.0, released 6 October 2009[11]
    • 4.1, released 7 April 2010
    • 4.2, released 21 October 2010[12]
    • 4.3, released 16 March 2011[13]
    • 4.4, released 2 August 2011[14]
  • JIRA 5: released 22 February 2012[15][16]

[edit] Architecture

JIRA is written in Java and uses the Pico inversion of control container, Apache OFBiz entity engine, and WebWork 1 technology stack. For Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), JIRA supports SOAP, XML-RPC and REST.[17]

JIRA integrates with source control programs such as Subversion, CVS, Git, Clearcase, Visual SourceSafe, Mercurial, and Perforce. It ships with various translations including English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.[18]

JIRA's flexible plugin architecture spawned 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[19] allows developers to integrate third-party applications into JIRA.

[edit] Adoption

Atlassian claims that JIRA is used for issue tracking and project management by over 14,500 organizations in 122 countries around the globe.

Some of the organizations using JIRA for bug-tracking and project management are Linden Lab,[20] JBoss,[21] Spring Framework,[22] Zend Framework,[23] Hibernate,[24] OpenSymphony,[25] Fedora Commons,[26] Codehaus XFire[27] and Skype.[28]

The Apache Software Foundation uses JIRA and Bugzilla.[29] Projects currently using Bugzilla have the option of migrating to JIRA at any time.[30]

[edit] Security

In April 2010 an XSS vulnerability in JIRA was the stepping stone to the compromise of key Apache Software Foundation servers.[31]

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Atlassian. "Licensing and Pricing - JIRA". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/licensing.jsp#nonprofit. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  2. ^ "How is JIRA pronounced?". http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192547. Retrieved 17 March 2010. 
  3. ^ "What does JIRA mean?". http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192544. Retrieved 11 July 2008. 
  4. ^ "About Atlassian - customers, life, community, FedEx days". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/company/. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  5. ^ a b "JIRA: Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/licensing.jsp. Retrieved 10 July 2011. 
  6. ^ "It's Back! Atlassian Relaunches Starter License Package to benefit Room to Read". Room to Read. 7 October 2009. http://blog.roomtoread.org/room-to-read/2009/10/its-back-atlassian-relaunches-starter-license-package-to-benefit-room-to-read.html. 
  7. ^ "Starter License". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/starter/. Retrieved 6 October 2009. 
  8. ^ "About Atlassian - customers, life, community, FedEx days". Atlassian. http://www.atlassian.com/company/. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  9. ^ "JIRA Release Summary". Confluence.atlassian.com. 24 August 2004. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/JIRA+Release+Summary. Retrieved 5 December 2011. 
  10. ^ "JIRA 3.13 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. 24 August 2004. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+3.13+Release+Notes. Retrieved 22 September 2011. 
  11. ^ "JIRA 4.0 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.0+Release+Notes. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  12. ^ "JIRA 4.2 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.2+Release+Notes. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  13. ^ "JIRA 4.3 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.3+Release+Notes. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  14. ^ "JIRA 4.4 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.4+Release+Notes. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  15. ^ "JIRA 5.0 Release Notes". Confluence.atlassian.com. 22 February 2012. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+5.0+Release+Notes. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
  16. ^ "JIRA 5 Released". Atlassian.com. http://www.atlassian.com/social-software-development-with-jira. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  17. ^ "JIRA RPC Services - JIRA Development". Developer.atlassian.com. 21 October 2011. https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+RPC+Services. Retrieved 3 January 2012. 
  18. ^ "Choosing a Default Language". confluence.atlassian.com. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Choosing+a+Default+Language. Retrieved 13 October 2011. 
  19. ^ "Jira Java Api". Docs.atlassian.com. http://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/latest/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  20. ^ "Bug Tracker - Second Life Wiki". Wiki.secondlife.com. 5 September 2011. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Issue_tracker. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  21. ^ Jboss.org/
  22. ^ "Springframework.org". Jira.springframework.org. http://jira.springframework.org/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  23. ^ "Zend.com". Framework.zend.com. http://framework.zend.com/issues/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  24. ^ "Atlassian.com". Opensource.atlassian.com. http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Dashboard.jspa. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  25. ^ "Opensymphony.com". Jira.opensymphony.com. http://jira.opensymphony.com/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  26. ^ "Fedora-commons.org". Fedora-commons.org. https://fedora-commons.org/jira/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  27. ^ "Codehaus.org". Jira.codehaus.org. http://jira.codehaus.org/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  28. ^ "Skype.com". Developer.skype.com. https://developer.skype.com/jira/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  29. ^ "Apache.org". Issues.apache.org. http://issues.apache.org/. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
  30. ^ "ApacheJira". http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira. Retrieved 25 September 2008. 
  31. ^ Ryan Naraine (13 April 2010). "Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack". http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apache-foundation-hit-targeted-xss-attack-041310. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
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