Jira (software)

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Jira
Developer(s)Atlassian, Inc.
Initial release2002; 22 years ago (2002)[1]
Stable release
7.4.1 / 29 June 2017; 6 years ago (2017-06-29)[2]
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeBug tracking system, project management software
LicenseProprietary, free for use by official non-profit organizations, charities, and open-source projects, but not governmental, academic or religious organizations[3][4]
Websiteatlassian.com/software/jira

Jira (/ˈdʒi.rɑː/ JEE-rah)[5] (stylized JIRA) is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions. Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla,[6] itself a reference to Jira's main competitor, Bugzilla. It has been developed since 2002.[1] According to one ranking method, as of June 2017, Jira is the most popular issue management tool.[7]

Description

According to Atlassian, Jira is used for issue tracking and project management by over 75,000 customers in 122 countries around the globe.[8] Some of the organizations that have used Jira at some point in time for bug-tracking and project management include Fedora Commons[9], Hibernate[10], Twitter[11], Skype Technologies[12], the NASA[13], the United States Department of Defense[14] and The Apache Software Foundation, which uses both Jira and Bugzilla.[15] Jira includes tools allowing migration from competitor Bugzilla.[16]

Jira is offered in three packages:[citation needed]

  • JIRA Software includes the base software, including agile project management features (previously a separate product: Jira Agile)
  • JIRA Core is intended at generic project management
  • JIRA Service Desk is intended for use by IT or business service desks.

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 REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC.[17] Jira integrates with source control programs such as Clearcase, Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Git, Mercurial, Perforce,[18] Subversion,[19] and Team Foundation Server. It ships with various translations including English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.[20]

The main features of Jira for agile software development are the functionality to plan development iterations, the iteration reports and the bug tracking functionality.

Jira supports the Networked Help Desk API for sharing customer support tickets with other issue tracking systems.[21]

License

Jira is a commercial software product that can be licensed for running on-premises or available as a hosted application. Pricing depends on the maximum number of users.[22]

Atlassian provides Jira for free to open source projects meeting certain criteria, and to organizations that are non-academic, non-commercial, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, and secular. For academic and commercial customers, the full source code is available under a developer source license.[22]

Security

In April 2010 a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Jira led to the compromise of two Apache Software Foundation servers. The Jira password database was compromised. The database contained unsalted password hashes, which are vulnerable to dictionary lookups and cracking tools. Apache advised users to change their passwords.[23] Atlassian themselves were also targeted as part of the same attack and admitted that a legacy database with passwords stored in plain text had been compromised.[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "About us". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Release Summary". Atlassian.com official website.
  3. ^ "Open Source Project License Request". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Community License Request". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  5. ^ "How is JIRA pronounced?". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. ^ "What does JIRA mean?". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Issue Management Tools - Popularity Ranking". Project-management.zone. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Customers". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Fedora Repository Project". DuraSpace. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Hibernate page". Atlassian.com official website. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ https://www.atlassian.com/customers/twitter. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ "Jira: Skype's Issue Tracking and Reporting System". Skype.com. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ https://www.atlassian.com/customers/nasa. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ https://www.atlassian.com/customers/department-of-defense. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ "Apache.org". Issues.apache.org. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  16. ^ "ApacheJira". Apache.org. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  17. ^ "JIRA RPC Services – JIRA Development". Atlassian.com official website. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  18. ^ "Integrating with Development Tools". Atlassian.com official website.
  19. ^ "Subversion JIRA plugin". Atlassian.com official website. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ "Choosing a Default Language". Atlassian.com official website. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
  21. ^ Latkiewicz, Matthew (7 June 2011). "Zendesk's JIRA Integration Rocks!". Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  22. ^ a b "JIRA: Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian.com official website. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ Golucci, Philip (13 April 2010). "apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010". Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  24. ^ Cannon-Brookes, Mike (13 April 2010). "Oh man, what a day! An update on our security breach". Atlassian Blogs – Atlassian.com official website. Atlassian. Retrieved 29 May 2013.

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