Atlassian just announced the availability of a major new release, JIRA 5. The Flowdock plugin is already compatible with it, and as a much-requested update it now shows a more detailed issue change log.
Last year was great for many agile development teams using Atlassian’s products: Confluence’s new rich text editor makes it by far the most usable wiki platform, and hosted Atlassian OnDemand (as evolved from JIRA Studio) is a simple way to get access to JIRA and Confluence.
Last year we also launched the first iterations of our JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and Bamboo integrations. It made us the only group chat based collaboration app, that works perfectly together with all Atlassian’s major products.
As we keep improving the integrations, your feedback is valuable. Please let us know if you can think of a use case that we currently don’t support!
Hubot, Github‘s awesome chat bot was open-sourced a couple weeks ago. That’s when we jumped in and made it talk with Flowdock. Hubot has some pretty cool abilities. To get your very own Flowdock Hubot:
show an image based on keywords (“hubot image me …”)
show a youtube video based on keywords (“hubot youtube me …”)
fetch an image of a person from the web and add mustache to aforementioned picture of said person as demonstrated above, great for Movember (“hubot mustache me …”)
See the rest by saying “hubot help”. There’s tons more you can add yourself in the hubot-scripts repository.
These features also make use of our new link preview feature (currently works with images, YouTube, Google Maps and tweets).
Make Hubot Useful
Hubot can do much more than incite a laugh or two. For example, one of our users, Christopher Castle, has implemented a JIRA issue fetcher, which allows Hubot to list and search JIRA issues assigned to you.
Atlassian’s issue and project tracking tool, JIRA, has one of the most popular Flowdock integrations. Flowdock adds real-time internal discussions to JIRA and turns actions in tickets into parts of the ongoing conversation in Flowdock.
Here’s a quick 45-second video showcasing the integration.
Flowdock also has integrations to other Atlassian’s tools such as Confluence and Bitbucket.
Atlassian OnDemand
Atlassian is now launching Atlassian OnDemand. They’re moving their entire product suite to the cloud. Whether you’re looking for hosted issue tracking, agile planning, an enterprise wiki, or source control, they’ve got you covered. Atlassian OnDemand features fully-integrated cloud-based versions of all their most popular development tools to help take you from concept to launch.
Atlassian OnDemand also adds Google Apps integration to Atlassian’s products. Amongst the integration features is logging in with your Google Apps account. Since Flowdock already has the support for it, you can get true single sing-on for all three services.
