At work we are using jira for project management. It appears to have all the features that one would want for projects management, particular for software engineering type work (from what I understand at least). However I personally find both graphical (web) interface and cli rather clunky to use. I won't go into a full spill about here, but the fact that there are a few wrappers and re-writes of jira-cli exists out there confirms the point. Here I'm not doing anything special simply wrote a few BASH scripts that simplify a few essential commands that I'm using on a day to day basis.
- essential environmental variables to be set
Hopefully all self explanatory. Note JIRA_PASSWORD is a sensible variable.
I would say only use this from your machine that no one else has access to
since your JIRA_PASSWORD string going to be in clear if you ps aux | grep jira
jira_exec="java -jar ${JIRA_EXEC}"
jira_usr=${JIRA_USER}
jira_pass=${JIRA_PASSWORD}
jira_proj=${JIRA_PROJECT}
jira_server=${JIRA_SERVER}
I have a file that I source in before using jira
[biostation2]~$ cat ~/Documents/jira.txt
export JIRA_EXEC=/opt/atlassian-cli-4.5.0/lib/jira-cli-4.5.0.jar
export JIRA_USER=serine
export JIRA_PROJECT=foo
export JIRA_SERVER="https://jira.blah.blah.edu"
I have a separate file that exports JIRA_PASSWORD since as I said this is rather sensible information
- will need
sudofor this
cd /usr/local/bin
for i in /opt/jira-cli-wrappers/*.sh;do ln -s $i $(basename $i .sh);done
more coming shortly..