August 2021

Good news for Advanced Roadmaps users, there will be new features and improvements in your plans. Also Bitbucket Runners is out of beta. #AdvancedRoadmaps #Bitbucket #Runners

• Coming soon for Advanced Roadmaps: New features and improvements
• Runners in Bitbucket Pipelines: Execute pipeline builds on your own server

Yes you can fetch data from Jira and report on it using your own tools

#GetAnswers #Reporting #Jira

You can build a solid approval system in Jira.

#GetAnswers #ApprovalSystem #Jira

Mars a popular and famous chocolate brand's factory is in Slough. I was walking there this morning and thought of recording the walk outside it.

#WalkingTour #MarsFactory #Slough

I wanted to visit Dorney Lake today but unfortunately it was closed but still the walk was wonderful.

#WalkingTour #DorneyLake

You can either customise Jira or use an app like Risk Register to get risk management capabilities in Jira.

#GetAnswers #RiskManagement

Today for my morning walk I went till Thames River in Windsor. It is really beautiful place to go for a walk.

#WalkingTour #ThamesRiver #JubileeRiver #Windsor #Eton #Burnham #Cippenham #Slough

Don't hesitate reaching out to an Atlassian Partner if you want to save time and money.

#AtlassianPartners #AtlassianCommunity

I started making lot of videos using my Poco x3 phone, although the phone is great with 2 in built microphones but making videos outside is not ideal with the wind here in UK. External mic also stopped working recently so I decided to make my own wind protector. It kind works.

#DIY #WindFilter #WindMuff #WindProtector

Using Jira Cloud to develop great products? Then use Automation to retrieve the details of the pull requests as well and send it to #Slack channels.

Title: {{pullRequest.title}}
Url: {{pullRequest.url}}

#Automation #PullRequest #Development #Bitbucket #Slack

Yes you can update multi select list field using Automation on Jira Cloud, use the correct JSON format.

#Automation #MultiSelectList

Mounting Android devices is easy on Arch Linux.

#simplemtpfs #mount #android

Today I was asked to show my ID for purchasing alcohol and that made me happy :) but apart from that I went for a nice walk to Jubilee River.

#WalkingTour #JubileeRiver

A lot happens in the @Atlassian ecosystem every day, so I have curated a list of important activities recently that you might want to know about like #JiraCon21 #DevOpsDecrypted #Podcast from @adaptavist and more.

The quick start guide on the official org mode site is probably the best to get you started.

#orgmode #emacs #quickstart

https://orgmode.org/quickstart.html

Keep these points in mind when migrating to Jira.

#Migration #JiraCloud

Thinking of migrating to Jira Cloud and worried about how to migrate your scripts from server to cloud?

#ScriptRunner #JiraCloud #JiraServer #Migration

Scripts here: https://github.com/sparxsys/ScriptRunner-Scripts/

You can easily remove users from project roles in bulk.

#ProjectRoleService #ProjectRole #RemoveUser

Add user to a project role: https://www.ravisagar.in/videos/scriptrunner-post-function-update-proje…

Script to add user to a project role: https://github.com/sparxsys/ScriptRunner-Scripts/blob/master/jira_serve…

As promised recently I have started making videos on #Inkscape today let us learn how to align and distribute objects. May be you want to create consistent thumbnails for your videos or create nice banners.

#Inkscape #Align #Distribute

You can learn Jira for free today.

#Training #Jira #Career

You can use automation rules to check if the story points field is empty but instead of stopping user from adding the issue to a sprint it will be good to just add a comment or send them a notification.

#Automation #Sprint #StoryPoints

All you need is a simple index.html

#Linkedin #CareerAdvice #Gitlab

Hosting options: https://www.ravisagar.in/hosting
Free hosting on Gitlab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O3fMVNqOJ0

Are you utilising the REST API with Automation rules on Jira Cloud?

#Automation #MakeRESTCalls

I upgraded my Android and the external mic stopped working but there is a simple fix.

#PocoX3NFC #BoyaMic #ExternalMic

Yes you can create a project using automation rules as well, you need to use Jira REST API for doing that and it works really well.

#Automation #CreateProject #MakeRESTCalls

I have been using dwm for 10 months now, overall I think I am more efficient and productive than ever. I am glad I made a choice to switch to it.

#dwm #suckless

Do you want to make field required only during a transition? You can easily do that using build in script validator. Easy to use.

#ScriptedValidator #Validator #ScriptRunner

https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4js/6.32.0/features/workflows/validators/…

Do you think your Jira/Confluence or any other Atlassian Cloud application is not working as it should be?

https://status.atlassian.com/

#GetAnswers #ActiveIncidents #ActiveOutage

Want to share your notes with your friend? Generate simple yet beautiful HTML files from your org notes.

#orgmode #emacs #exportHTML

There was an interesting question on the community on how to calculate date difference but excluding weekend and non working hours.

#Automation #DateDifference #BusinessDays

Smart values for dates: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/smart-values-dat…

Smart values: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/what-are-smart-v…

How would you display important events on your plan?

#Milestones #AdvancedRoadmaps #PortfolioTutorial

Let us see how quickly we can boot into Arch Linux on a 10 year old ThinkPad.

#ThinkPad #x220 #Arch #Linux

Video shot with Poco X3

Do you want to create a bug resolution report with the details of the issue, commit messages, branch name and the changes in the code? Such post mortem reports can be created in Confluence using REST API.

#ConfluenceRESTAPI #createPage #Bitbucket #Jira

Code: https://github.com/sparxsys/confluence-shell-scripts/

Haymill Valley Nature Reserve is a great place to go for a morning walk and if you are nature lover like me then you should come to this place.

#Burnham #HaymillValley #BurnhamStation

One of the first thing I do in the morning is to start playing some music and I do that by running a simple mpc command.

#mpc #ncmcpp

Let us get the list of spaces in Confluence with this simple shell script.

#ConfluenceRESTAPI #getSpaces

End point: /wiki/rest/api/space

Code: https://github.com/sparxsys/confluence-shell-scripts/blob/main/getSpace…

I really like Poha but the way I make it is a bit different than usual.

#YesICanCook #Poha #DelhiStyle

Which code repository manager do I use?

#Bitbucket #GitHub #GitLab

Today I went to Taplow in the morning. It is very nice village near Burnham. I encountered deers and lot of natural beauty.

#Burnham #Taplow

This video was made using ffmpeg, Commands here

Can you configure start ti start dependency using Advanced Roadmaps? When you configure your plan you can schedule your dependencies to start one after another (sequentially) or in parallel (concurrently).

#StartToStart #Dependency #AdvancedRoadmaps #PortfolioTutorial

Create a Jira issue from GitLab and do other wonderful things using Automation rules that you can trigger from GitLab. I made a detailed video on this topic as well.

#GetAnswers #JiraSoftware #DevOps #GitLab #Automation

I do have another channel where I talk about #Atlassian tools like #Jira #Confluence #Bitbucket #ScriptRunner #DevOps #SAFe and today thought I will mention this in case you want to subscribe to that channel as well. Link below :)

The famous #Mars #chocolate factory is in Slough and very close to #Burnham, today I had to buy some Indian stuff from #Exotic on #FarnhamRoad and I thought of recording my ride.

This video was made using ffmpeg, Commands here: https://www.ravisagar.in/blog/ffmpeg-create-walkingbike-ride-videos-bac…

I have been using #LBRY for a year now and very happy with it. I don't see any reason why you should not be using it.

#Odysee #Sync #Videos

Wondering how Jira Software can be used to manage multiple projects within your organisation? Are you thinking to implement SAFe and DevOps as well and not sure how to get started? Let me try to help.

#GetAnswers #SAFe #JiraSoftware #DevOps

I recently started recording my bike and car rides using Akaso V50 Pro which can be used as dashcam as well but it may not be very easy to attach. Today let me show you what attachments I use.

Today I went to Taplow in the morning. It is very nice village near Burnham. I encountered deers and lot of natural beauty. The High street is also very quiet.

#Burnham #Taplow

Wondering if you can develop software with #Jira? Of course you can and get the most out of the development tools like integrating them with Jira, today let us integrate with GitLab.

#GitLab #JiraSoftware #DevelopmentTools

I never tried controlling my music on #mpd server so I thought today why not try that.

#mpd #mpdel #emacs

https://github.com/mpdel/mpdel

Do you know Jira Cloud has a recycle bin? :)

#GetAnswers #DeleteProject #Trash

If you are learning Org Mode and Emacs then don't try to do too much too soon. Get comfortable with the basics and gradually start using it to solve your bigger problems.

#orgmode #getstarted #emacs

https://ravi.pro/blog/blogging-with-emacs-org-mode.html

Wondering whether you will be able to make a great career in Atlassian ecosystem? Let me share my views.

#Atlassaian #JobMarket #CareerAdvice #YourComments

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ravisagar/episodes/How-is-the-Atlassian-job-market-e1…

Use #screenkey to show your key strokes on screen when presenting or doing a technical demo. Really useful.

#keystrokes #screenkey

Install it on Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S screenkey

https://gitlab.com/screenkey/screenkey

Don't delete your issues in Jira just to save storage space. Delete attachments instead if you really have to.

#Automation #ScheduledRule #DeleteAttachments

I love using org-tree-slide-mode to quickly show my org files as editable presentations. Using it for 8 months now and extremely happy with it.

#orgmode #presentations

https://ravi.pro/blog/blogging-with-emacs-org-mode.html

It is very easy to iterate over all the files in a directory to perform bulk operations like reducing the file size of multiple videos.

#shell #ffmpeg #forloop

ffmpeg commands

Do you want to populate your select list custom field values from ane external source like REST API?

#GetAnswers #SelectList #ExternalRESTAPI

Let me share my thoughts on why making #short videos on #youtube really works for me.

Notes: https://ravi.pro/blog/long-videos-or-short-videos.html

In most of my scripts I have issue key or some hard coded values and the purpose is to give you a working example but you can always change it to a variable.

#ScriptRunnerforJira #HardCodedIssueKeys

Script here: https://github.com/sparxsys/ScriptRunner-Scripts/

Trying to get confluence page's content using REST API? It is easy.

#ConfluenceRESTAPI #getContent #PageBody #ContentBody

End point: /wiki/rest/api/content/1234?expand=body.view

Converting pdf to text is extremely easy and simple using #poppler package which contains utilities like #pdftotext

Install it on Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S poppler

https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext