Jitter is a JIRA plugin that provides each project with a special microblog where users can collaborate using short messages. The plugin helps you to make your projects more social and enables project members to quickly broadcast updates and announcements.
Jitter is available for download on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange site. You can also follow Jitter on Twitter.
Anyone familiar with Twitter will feel right at home and many tweet features are supported.
Jitter, an irregular time variation of period signal properties, such as small, unpredictable delays in scheduling
- From Wikipedia
Main Features
Project Wall
- Support for searching and linking #hashtags
- Support for searching and linking @mentions
- Free text search for posts
- URLs in posts are clickable
- Issues in posts are clickable
- REST API (read+write)
The plugin adds a new tab in the project view called Wall. It contains two columns. On the right column is a box to post a new item to the wall and a list of recent project posts. The left column show last post by the user in addition to a search box to find posts.
Each post can contain maximum of 140 characters (inspired by tweets). This might become configurable in the future. Every URL, issue, #hashtag, and @mention in a post are hyperlinks.
When a user includes an URL in a post, the plugin converts that into a clickable link to allow users to easily share links. Just like other content in JIRA, issues are converted into links to the issue view.
Users can mention other members using the @username notation. This is converted into a clickable link that displays posts by that member.
To provide context to posts, users can use the #hashtag notation. Every hashtag will be turned into a link that displays posts that contain the hashtag.
The beta version of the plugin requires JIRA 4.3 and the Active Objects plugin. See the AO install instructions before installing Jitter. Please contact me if you have any issues with the plugin or create an issue.
Jitter ships with a REST API to read or write wall posts. This can be great for building robots that automatically post to a project wall; build customer Jitter clients; or display wall feed outside of the project page, for example in Confluence.