JIRA (software)

infobox software
name = JIRA
developer = Atlassian Software Systems
released = initial release|2004|10|12
latest release version = 3.13
latest release date = release date|2008|09|09 [cite web|title=JIRA 3.13 Release Notes|url=http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+3.13+Release+Notes|date=2008-09-09|publisher=Atlassian]
programming language = Java
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Bug tracking system, Project management software
license = Proprietary, free for noncommercial
website = [http://atlassian.com/software/jira http://atlassian.com/software/jira]

JIRA is a bug, issue tracking, and project management system developed by Atlassian Software Systems. Rather than an acronym, "JIRA" is a truncation of "Gojira" (the Japanese name for "Godzilla"). [Cite web
title=What does JIRA mean?
url=http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=192544
accessmonthday=July 11
accessyear=2008]

License

Altassian provides JIRA for free to open source projects, and organizations that are:
* Non-profit,
* Non-government,
* Non-academic,
* Non-commercial,
* Non-political
* SecularFor other organizations, Altassian charges between $1200 and $4,800 US, depending on version, with a 50% discount for an academic license [cite web | accessdate=2008-09-25|title=JIRA Pricing|url=http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp | publisher=Atlassian] . Starting with JIRA version 3.13 [cite web|url=http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2008/09/lets_get_person.html|title=Let's get personal... JIRA and Confluence Personal Licenses|date=2008-09-23|publisher=Atlassian] , a free personal license is also available for non-commercial use [cite web|url=http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/personal.jsp|title=Personal License|accessdate=2008-09-25|publisher=Atlassian] . This license does not include Atlassian support, and it is limited to three full users.

Integration

JIRA connectors exist for the Eclipse IDE task-management subsystem Mylyn.

Adoption in Open Source Projects

Because of the free licensing for open source projects, several developer groups have adopted JIRA in their projects [cite web | accessdate=2008-09-25 | title=JIRA Pricing | JIRA Customers | url=http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/customers.jsppublisher=Atlassian] , among them JBoss [http://jira.jboss.org/] , Spring Framework [http://jira.springframework.org/] , OpenSymphony [http://jira.opensymphony.com/] , Codehaus [http://jira.codehaus.org/] .

Adoption Considerations

The Apache Software Foundation uses JIRA and Bugzilla [http://issues.apache.org/] . Projects still using Bugzilla are encouraged to migrate to JIRA [cite web|title=ApacheJira|url=http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira|accessdate=2008-09-25] .

In an evaluation in October 2006, [http://python.org Python.org] , the official website of the Python programming language, considered a move from SourceForge to a different issue management system [cite mailing list | url = http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html | title = PSF Infrastructure Committee's recommendation for a new issue tracker | mailinglist = python-dev | date = 2006-10-03| first = Brett Cannon] , which resulted in the decision for Roundup [cite mailing list | url = http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-October/410004.html | title = PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development | mailinglist = python-list | date = 2006-10-20| first = Brett Cannon] .

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 [cite mailing list | url=https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182067#c8 | title = Bug 182067: Migrate bug track system to JIRA | mailinglist = Eclipse Bugzilla | date = 2007-04-12] . In addition JIRA is not considered open source software.

ee also

* Atlassian Software Systems
* Confluence

References