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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Jira
I picked up Jira and Confluence this week, during Atlassian's "Stimulus Package" sale -- $5 each! A while back, I'd looked at Jira, and several other bug-tracking/project-tracking applications, but I never got around to evaluating any of them. I've had a vague sort of a plan to implement Trac eventually, after first converting from CVS to Subversion (which was also a vague kind of plan with no particular timeline on it). I don't think I could have ever talked my boss into paying $1200 for Jira, which is their cheapest commercial license. The $5 version only covers 5 users, but that's fine, since I only have two programmers working for me right now anyway.
It looks like Jira can work with either CVS or Subversion. I'm still planning on converting to SVN before I install Jira though. Of course, since we're a (mostly) Microsoft shop, I should probably look into TFS, but I think that might a bit too expensive for me.
It's a bit of a balancing act, in a small shop, trying to figure out how much time and money to spend on infrastructure (for lack of a better word) -- project tracking, version control, formal testing, and so on. I can't spend too much time on it, but if I don't do it at all, things start to fall apart...
It looks like Jira can work with either CVS or Subversion. I'm still planning on converting to SVN before I install Jira though. Of course, since we're a (mostly) Microsoft shop, I should probably look into TFS, but I think that might a bit too expensive for me.
It's a bit of a balancing act, in a small shop, trying to figure out how much time and money to spend on infrastructure (for lack of a better word) -- project tracking, version control, formal testing, and so on. I can't spend too much time on it, but if I don't do it at all, things start to fall apart...
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