On 16 September 2015 at 11:32, Stefan Hett <ste...@egosoft.com> wrote: > Hi, >>> >>> Speaking about Ivan's suggested monospace-renderer-plugin and the concern >>> that it might break with a future version of JIRA: My experience with >>> JIRA >>> (which dates back to around 2005 I guess) is that Atlassian is quite >>> reluctant with introducing changes which break plugins. So it's quite >>> rare >>> that that a plugin which works in 6.0 breaks during the 6.x releases. >>> Things >>> are slightly different when the major version numbers change, but then >>> this >>> only happens every 2 years or so. Hence the maintenance work for such a >>> plugin should be considered quite low in the general case. >>> On the other side Atlassian requires plugin developers to maintain and >>> test >>> their plugins on a regular basis (so they are still ensured to be >>> compatible >>> with later versions). >>> If that's some concern and there is some help wanted/needed, I'd be >>> willing >>> to offer Ivan a hand with the maintenance work on his plugin (if that >>> would >>> help). As a test environment I'd provide my own JIRA instance, so that >>> would >>> not add much workload to me. >>> >> Thanks for offering help, but I already have test JIRA instance at my >> office that I used for Serf project issues migration. >> >> Btw do you have any experience in writing JIRA plugins? Writing >> monospaced (preformated) text render would be big help. > > Unfortunately not at all, otherwise I would have offered to do so. > While I do have some decent knowledge of Java due to my studies, I haven't > been coding in Java for several years now and don't even have a development > environment set-up for that. > I also don't have Java environment, while I developed several plugins more then 10 years ago. Link to the Atlassian tutorial if ever want to learn it: https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started/set-up-the-atlassian-plugin-sdk-and-build-a-project
-- Ivan Zhakov
