sydney atlassian user group 5 th aug, 2010 [email protected]
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Agenda• Housekeeping• Confluence Plugin demo – Roberto
Domingues of Comalatech• Atlassian Support (Andrew Rallings)• Atlassian State of the Nation (Audra & Sherif)• Birds of a Feather (if time)
Housekeeping• Atlassian facilities & people – thank you for
hosting this event• Next SAUG – Thurs, 4th November 5:30pm –
8:30pm• http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Atlassian-
Partner-User-Group/ • Speakers please?– Interesting uses, integrations, and customization of
Atlassian products– Case studies – Technical tutorial
Atlassian has a new portfolio partner• Atlassian announced the closing of a USD $60M investment from
Accel Partners for a minority equity position. Rich Wong, Partner at Accel Partners, will join Atlassian's board of directors. The funds will fuel Atlassian's continued leadership in software development and enterprise collaboration tools, through accelerated expansion into Europe and Asia and additional focus on M&A to add complementary products to the Atlassian portfolio. The investment will also be used to facilitate liquidity for employees.
• About Accel Partners
Founded in 1983, Accel Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class businesses.
• Accel invests globally using dedicated teams in each local geography, with offices in Palo Alto, London, New Delhi, Bangalore as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership. With over $6 billion under management,
• Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, including Acopia, AdMob, Alfresco, Arrowpoint, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Groupon, Interwoven, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, NextG Networks, Polycom/PictureTel, Portal Software, QlikTech, Real Networks, Riverbed, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource and Zimbra.
Atlassian Support – Andrew Rallings• Atlassian
Support• Hercules
Bot
State of the Nation – Audra & Sherif
• Round-up of the Atlassian products
Atlassian UpdateState of the UnionAugust 2010
Agenda
• Upcoming releases• Recruiting for JIRA and Confluence Beta • Recruiting for Persona Interviews• AtlasCamp 2010
JIRA 4.2 – Q3 2010
• Usability– Keyboard Shortcuts– Labels revamped for JIRA– Dialogs for workflow transitions & issue
operations
• Time Tracking – Logging work
JIRA Keyboard Shortcuts
JIRA Labels
Operations Dialog
‘Log Work’ Improvements
Confluence Upcoming releases
• Confluence 3.4 (Q3 2010)• Confluence 4.0 (Q1 2011)
Confluence 3.4• Headline:
Native LDAP support (with support for nested groups)Universal Plugin Manager (UPM)User Macros in Macro Browser Keyboard shortcut improvements
• Supportability:SQL Server 2008 supportPostgres 8.4 support
• Security:Forgotten password improvements HTTP Session Cookie
• Under-the-hoodPerformance improvements
Confluence 3.4• Useful information for partners / plugin developers:– Un-bundling Left-hand Nav and Clickr themes
Migrating to EasyReader and Documentation Themes– User Macros
Can now appear in the macro browser if an admin enables them to
– UPMMake sure your plugins are on plugins.atlassian.com
– Common Modules Upgrade(AUI, Seraph, XWork, bandana, Gadgets and Template Renderer)
Confluence 4.0• Headline:
New Rich Text Editor (RTE)Editing “stalker bar”Macro Placeholders New labels dialogTable colspan merge
• Supportability:Chrome support
• Security:Forgotten password improvements HTTP Session Cookie
• Under-the-hoodXHTML Backend
User Macros
New Editor
Confluence 4.0• Useful information for partners / plugin developers:– XHTML Backend storage
No longer in Wiki Markup– Macro Placeholders – Minor API changes
• Get involved– 4.0 Editor FAQ
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+FAQ
– Summit State of the Union videohttps://extranet.atlassian.com/display/SMT/Summit+2010+-+Confluence+State+of+the+Union
– User Task Force (http://atlss.in/task4rce)
FishEye & Crucible 2.4 – Q4 2010• Performance Improvements
– Natural page scrolling– Pagination for long lists (e.g. Repository pages)– Progressive rendering for faster experience with large files– Crucible standalone stability and performance improvements
• Design Improvements– New header more consistent with JIRA - Easy navigation between products– New file history view - Better information display and navigation– New Administrator look and feel– New Crucible unified "In-Box" - easy access to your reviews
• SCM Features– Branch and Tag filtering– Hg and Git, faster and more accurate indexing
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Bamboo
• Bamboo 2.7 – Q4 2010– Staged Plans– Parallel Builds– Mercurial integration
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Bamboo Build Result
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Bamboo Build Activity
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Birds of a Feather
Breakout into 2 groups:• Confluence• JIRA