Update: I’ve rewritten the plugin to make it poll the JIRA installation for issues. Please checkout the latest updates!

I’ve been using gnome-do a bit on Ubuntu lately and I’m pretty impressed. As I’m regularly looking up JIRA issues at work, I figured I might create a basic plugin where a user can start typing a JIRA issue code, then press enter and it’ll take them to the relevant bug page. This is how it looks…

Basically you need to drop the JIRA.dll inside the archive below in ~/.local/share/gnome-do/plugins and restart gnome-do. By default the JIRA base repository is set to use the Apache one, so you’ll want to fire up “gconf-editor” and go to /apps/gnome-do/plugins/JIRA and then set the “baseUrl” property to your JIRA install location. After setting your preferred repository you’ll want to restart gnome-do.

Note this is a pretty primitive plugin. Essentially it’s just a regex that looks for an uppercase string, followed by a dash, followed by a number. If it detects that pattern, then it’ll suggest a url. Maybe at some point there should be ability to start the creation of issues or even do searches on the fly. For now it’s just a simple issue code lookup (which as a result requires no authentication). It also only supports a single repository.

If this sounds like it might interest you, the download archive (which contains a mono-devlop project) is below.

• gnome-do JIRA Plugin 0.1 (tar.gz)
  • Initial Version
• gnome-do JIRA Plugin 0.2 (tar.gz)
  • More relaxed regex, you can now type the project code in lowercase, and it will be converted to uppercase automatically.

The plugin is licenced under the GPL.