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JIRA 4 goes all a-Twitter with new activity stream

By Alex Handy

October 6, 2009 — What if your team sent their status updates to you via Facebook or Twitter? The new version of Atlassian's enterprise issue tracking platform, JIRA 4, adds an activity stream to users' dashboards, giving project management the same stream-of-consciousness feel as a Facebook or Twitter feed. JIRA 4 also adds a new query language for squeezing information out of the bug database, as well as new UI refinements.

Ken Olofsen, project marketing manager for JIRA, said that the new activity stream tracks “various things going on that are relevant to projects, issues or users. It's a great way for teams to be aware of the activity going on with respect to the bugs they're working on and closing out.”

Version 4 also adds support for OpenSocial gadgets. Google's API for social applications provides the basis for dashboard gadgets in JIRA 4. That means development managers can bring in standard Google gadgets for use in their dashboard. Atlassian has also whipped up a number of useful gadgets of their own, such as dynamic graphs charting bug closures and developer productivity.

Another area of improvement for JIRA 4 comes with the addition of the new JIRA Query Language (JQL). “It's a structured syntax that allows you to build queries," said Olofsen.

"We had this fear, initially, that this might be an intimidating feature. We've built the UI to introduce JQL in an easy-to-understand fashion. The issue navigator screen has an auto-complete feature. It will automatically give me a drop-down of all the fields I can take a first action on. The queries build themselves."

Version 4 also introduces new UI refinements and an updated plug-in system. Olofsen said that Atlassian will host such plug-ins for easy access by other users.

JIRA 4 also introduces a new licensing model for Atlassian's flagship product. With the release of version 4, JIRA will, for the first time, be licensed per user. Olofsen said a new low-end license will be made available at US$10 per 10 users.

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