The Goldfish Chronicles

My main JIRA plugin work for the last few days has been a beefed up version of the release status portlet. Apart from the version health, all of the highlighted features below are new:

The new features can be split into two parts.

Firstly, there’s a new top bar to the portlet. It shows the Project the version comes form (important when a version might just be ‘1.2.2′), and provides handy links on the right hand side. Most notable of these is the ability to toggle the portlet between the current user and all users. This toggle can be set to either by default.

Secondly, you can now chain a series of versions together. This is mostly a real estate saving concept, as it’s common to be planning multiple versions at the same time if not always working on them. It’s also useful to tie a series of milestones into a version-group. JIRA lacks the concept of milestones, so this lets you setup your milestones and then give your users a way to visualize the version as a whole.

The only thing I have planned for this plugin is to find a way to replace the poor JIRA Release Notes page, but that’ll take some time so now’s the time to give these portlets a try.

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