Many thanks to Carrie and Nathan
March 22nd, 2007 by HenThe last few blog entries have been mentioning the JIRA plugins I’ve released. Carrie and Nathan have definitely suffered over the last week, I missed the bus twice last week because that last hour of play at work had turned into two, and both have had to deal with my habit of talking out loud when I’m thinking about things. That was all for the Release plugin. So thanks especially to Carrie for putting up with that.
The other plugin (FilterList) has an older history. It’s something I’ve wanted for a while, but had never found the energy to work on. Grief is an odd thing though, and I’ve noticed that my preference is to find flow and let the grief work its way through my subconscious. The subconscious let the sadness through from time to time, but it also resolved many of the thoughts with a strong urge to live life. Sadly for my family, that means finding flow in code and doing/learning new things. Thus I dove into JIRA.
FilterList was written the Sunday after we found out. I knew I had to make sure I was available as much as possible for Carrie and Nathan, but I also knew I needed to find time to lose myself. It took an afternoon/evening. It’s very little code, but there’s so much Javadoc for JIRA that it takes an age to find the one that does what you want. On the plus side, it’s pretty easy to end up with something that looks polished and professional with JIRA, so the payback for the work is incredibly high.
I suspect I’m the first person to find solace in an issue tracker.