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Me and my friend are brainstorming with an idea to build an issue tracker that will be headless. It can be deployed using yaml files where admin can define the configurations.

• System will keep track of previous configurations

• History of issue data will be preserved

• Configurations can be deployed from dev to staging to production

• Each component in the system will have a service. For example user management, configuration management, business logic etc

• It will be available on cloud and on prem and using distributed infrastructure like Kubernetes and can be deployed on AWS or Azure

• We will build clients for web, Slack and teams

• The system will be extensible, developers can write their plugins

This is just an idea and we are trying to get some initial feedback on whether all this make sense, are there any other similar tools in the market and are we trying to solve any problem or not?

Forge is the new recommended platform from Atlassian. When it first came out I tried it and first impression was good but it was earlier this year in 2022 when I developed an app and also published it on the Atlassian Marketplace. Although it took few weeks for the app to get approved but I was happy that the app was approved that I developed literally in 2 days.

Since then I didn't get much time to add more features to this app but now I have decided to get a bit more serious about Forge now. I also asked recently on my channel from my subscribers to give me feedback on the app and help me improve it. My plan for 2023 is to add significant features to this app.

My idea about the Stay on top is very simple. I want to create an app just one that will super charge your Jira instance. Basically this app will have features for the end users and also for the administrators and there is a reason for that. I have been doing Atlassian Consultancy for many years and I know Jira is great tool but often you have to install lot of apps to solve a problem. On Jira DC this problem can be solved easily using ScriptRunner for Jira but on Cloud you have to install a lot of apps and usually organisation are not comfortable install plenty of apps.

ScriptRunner for Jira on Cloud is limited by Jira REST API

New user Jira get confused with the capabilities of Jira Cloud. Although it has lot of new features like Jira Work Management and nice UI but automation options are limited. We have Automation rules on Jira Cloud and also ScriptRunner for Jira Cloud but there is a limit to the level of automations you can do. If you are migrating from Jira Server/DC to Jira Cloud then you will have to rewrite your scripts with limited capabilities.

Sparxsys can help you migrate your Jira Server/DC scripts to Jira Cloud.

We provide Atlassian Consultancy services and can do lot of things but out focus is a bit more Automation and Scaled Agile. Based on my experience I know that majority of organisations' needs can be fulfilled by Jira's native features. Yes apps do bring lot of features but do you really need 10 different apps? That is where we can help to first understand what problems you want to solve and then suggest an adoption path.

That is it for today :)