Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Second JIRA book available

The O'Reilly page for Practical JIRA Plugins is live! The second book follows the poultry theme of the first and has a duck on its cover. This book is a bit more technical than Practical JIRA Administration but should help anyone wanting to write their own plugins for JIRA.

~Matt

p.s. Guess what I'm going to eat to celebrate this book!

8 comments:

  1. Hi Matt,
    Just got a copy of your book. I was looking for information on whats the best way to perform certain operations during plugin installation (e.g. create DB tables, edit/populate configuration data etc) and cleanup during unInstallation. I couldnt find any pertinent information in the book. Do you have any suggestions?

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  2. Use ActiveObjects for the database if possible, check out the Configurable Currency sections for configuration data (WebWork). Uninstallation would be an explicit step in the Configuration I guess since JIRA doesn't have a step for it in a plugin's lifecycle.

    ~Matt

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  3. Hi Matt,
    Read your book. I had a question and have been unable to find an answer to this. Any advice or hint would be appreciated...Heres what i am trying to do..I wanted to have a dropdown Menu on the ViewIssue page. what i found was that the Menus are placed in group like "Edit" is in 1 group, "Assign,Comment,MoreAction" in another. The last one is the one that can be dropdown. How do i add another group similar to "Assign,Comment,MoreAction"?


    Thanks

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  4. Probably a better place for this question is answers.atlassian.com. If you post it over there, I can respond to more people.

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  5. But I think what you want is an issue-operation plugin module

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