The Goldfish Chronicles

Roller JIRA was also moved into the main ASF JIRA. Not a bad vacation - three JIRAs turned off Also saw the last stages of the Commons CLI 1.2 release being done.

Cayenne join Click on the central JIRA. The machine flexes its new free memory. The admin looks forward to the ease of only having 1 instance to manage someday.

Next up - Roller.

Step 1 in the 5 step plan to merge your JIRAs is complete. The Apache Click JIRA has now been merged into the main JIRA and the underlying machine has received a nice memory refund from the JIRA world.

Next up - Cayenne JIRA.

The AIG ’scandal’ is much fun.

I get the shock and horror on the part of the ‘taxpayer’ at money being spent on performance bonuses at a company who presumably ‘have not performed’ as a whole otherwise they wouldn’t be asking for a bail-out. It’s a problem though as companies do need to retain valuable staff and even companies in these situations should be giving bonuses to those who have performed. Presumably the lions share of the bonuses went to the top level, so hopefully the 90% congress tax issue has a reasonable non-taxed floor to allow performing employees to not get hit for board room greed.

The joke of it all though is that the government is bailing out a company whose board and highest level of leadership have failed financially in some way - why should they be shocked that the money is not well used. Hindsight would imply that the money should only have been given with indicate of an overhaul of the leadership leading to that lack of money.

Nathan and I are in England on vacation. As we flew over Greenland, the vote to release Commons CLI 1.2 passed and I’ve now pushed out the artifacts.

Time to kick CLI2 off to the Sandbox and get rid of the almighty confusion that that component has lived in for so long. Should have happened 4 years ago in hindsight.

Happiness is a successful upgrade.

3.13.2 is an interesting JIRA upgrade for us. Major new features:

#1# We can start merging the JIRAs and saving some cpu/memory/disk. Most importantly saving admin time.

#2# Favourite filters. Atlassian have changed filtering to be less spammy by having you star the filters you like. I’ll have to adjust my plugins on the front page to adapt to this, but it’s definitely a good step on their part.

#3# Sharable dashboards. HUGE new feature. Now I can put together a Commons dashboard, with perhaps a custom plugin just for Commons, and everyone else in Commons can share it.

Most importantly - this was done before ApacheCon rather than taking JIRA down for everyone while there, and before I am on vacation freeing me up to do things that are more original with my evenings at my parents. Or freeing me up to look into merging the JIRAs

Upgrade happening Sunday 21:00->23:00 PST (Monday 04:00->06:00 GMT) to JIRA 3.13.2 - see timeanddate.com for more times.

JIRA will be read-only for the time period, and down for a short time therein just before it becomes writeable again. Please raise questions on irc.freenode.net #asfinfra

[The other JIRAs were migrated on Friday night - Struts, ActiveMQ/ServiceMix, Cayenne, Click, Roller]