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.
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Regards,
Stefan Hett
