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JIRA
Developed by Atlassian Software Systems
Initial release October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12)
Latest release 3.13 / 09 September 2008; 122 days ago[1]
Written in Java
OS Cross-platform
Type Bug tracking system, Project management software
License Proprietary, free for noncommercial
Website http://atlassian.com/software/jira

JIRA is a bug, issue tracking, and project management system developed by Atlassian Software Systems. Rather than an acronym, JIRA is a truncation of Gojira (the Japanese name for Godzilla).[2]

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License

Atlassian provides JIRA for free to open source projects, and organizations that are non-profit, non-government, non-academic, non-commercial, non-political, and secular.[3] For other organizations, Atlassian charges between $1200 and $4800 US, depending on version, with a 50% discount for an academic license.[4] Starting with JIRA version 3.13,[5] a free personal license is also available for non-commercial use.[6] This license does not include Atlassian support, and it is limited to three full users.

Integration

JIRA connectors exist for the Eclipse IDE task-management subsystem Mylyn.

Adoption in open source projects

Because of the free licensing for open source projects, several developer groups have adopted JIRA in their projects,[7] among them JBoss,[8] Spring Framework,[9] OpenSymphony,[10] Codehaus.[11]

Adoption considerations

The Apache Software Foundation uses JIRA and Bugzilla.[12]. Projects still using Bugzilla are encouraged to migrate to JIRA[13]

In an evaluation in October 2006, Python.org, the official website of the Python programming language, considered a move from SourceForge to a different issue management system,[14] with Launchpad, Jira, Roundup and Trac suggested as replacement systems. The discussion resulted in a decision for Roundup.[15]

In 2007, the Eclipse community discussed the replacement of Bugzilla with JIRA, but did not consider a switch because a migration would "cost" too much and no benefit could be seen.[16] In addition JIRA is not considered open source software.

See also

References

  1. ^ "JIRA 3.13 Release Notes". Atlassian (2008-09-09).
  2. ^ "What does JIRA mean?". Retrieved on July 11, 2008.
  3. ^ "JIRA: Licensing and Pricing". Atlassian. Retrieved on 2009-01-05.
  4. ^ "JIRA Pricing". Atlassian. Retrieved on 2008-09-25.
  5. ^ "Let's get personal... JIRA and Confluence Personal Licenses". Atlassian (2008-09-23).
  6. ^ "Personal License". Atlassian. Retrieved on 2008-09-25.
  7. ^ "Atlassian JIRA Pricing". Retrieved on 2008-09-25.
  8. ^ http://jira.jboss.org/
  9. ^ http://jira.springframework.org/
  10. ^ http://jira.opensymphony.com/
  11. ^ http://jira.codehaus.org/
  12. ^ http://issues.apache.org/
  13. ^ "ApacheJira". Retrieved on 2008-09-25.
  14. ^ "PSF Infrastructure Committee's recommendation for a new issue tracker". python-dev mailing list. 2006-10-03. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html. 
  15. ^ "PSF Infrastructure has chosen Roundup as the issue tracker for Python development". python-list mailing list. 2006-10-20. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-October/410004.html. 
  16. ^ "Bug 182067: Migrate bug track system to JIRA". Eclipse Bugzilla mailing list. 2007-04-12. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=182067#c8. 


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