The Goldfish Chronicles

The comment from Niall on wanting the Release Status portlet for Commons made me ponder. The Filter List plugin was designed specifically to save some real estate and to make it easy to find the four triage filters that my colleagues and I use every morning. It’s a bit spammy to force those four links on everyone else in the company, but it’s a small company so not that big a deal (plus I’m the JIRA admin so I can go lalala if people complain too softly).

The Release Status plugin was designed specifically to highlight a particular release. That’s going to work really well for Don and his desire to use it in Struts; though the lack of either Due Dates or a Release Date mean that some of the fields will either not be appearing or will always be zero, but as Commons lives in the much larger main ASF repository it’s not something that can go on the main dashboard. Not unless I add a ‘random “release of the week”‘ bit to add a bit of fairness.

So that got me to thinking - what would be good for the ASF? And the answer that popped out was a way to see the latest releases from the ASF. So in a rather worryingly successful hour of coding I put together the Latest Releases portlet and bundled it in with the Release plugin.

Here’s a quick screenshot:

As I was up to speed, I poked at another plugin I’d been working on a week or two back. Part of the dayjob involves digging into the history of projects, and it’s highly irritating how many projects don’t provide a page saying when they released v1.0, v1.1 etc. The ones that spring to mind are mostly all in Jakarta Commons, so something I’ve been able to do as I dig through this information is to update the release information in JIRA for each component. That’s why I’m doing the job, with one piece of work I can achieve both a company thing and an open source thing.

There’s a hitch though. That information is only available to people who can administer the project. So I added a Releases project panel that details the history (think ChangeLog, but without all the issues spammingthings) and with myself truly in the flow I quickly got it looking how I felt it should look and it was ready for release as a part of the Release plugin.

Again, here’s a looksee:

Both have now been released in version 2.0 of the Release Status plugin.

Convince your JIRA admin to install them

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