The Atlassian Doc Sprint was awesome
We have just finished our first Atlassian Doc Sprint. We put 20 developers in a room with computers for 3 days. We didn’t know whether to expect the complete works of Shakespeare or some shiny new tutorials. Here’s what happened. The problem we tackled We have some gaps in our plugin development documentation. OK, maybe […]
The Atlassian Doc Sprint is happening, and soon
We’re holding an Atlassian Doc Sprint on 22-24 February. You may have already heard about it. This is a quick reminder to the people who are coming and an invitation to join us if you haven’t already. What will happen in the doc sprint? We’ll cloister ourselves in a room with some computers, some geeks […]
Technical Writing @ Atlassian: join us in the first Atlassian Doc Sprint
The first Atlassian Doc Sprint will take place from Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 February 2010. It’s happening in Sydney, in San Francisco and online. You are invited! If you can’t join us in person, you can drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to […]
The big list of Atlassian gadgets
We’ve just published the big list of Atlassian gadgets. It shows all our gadgets, where they come from and where you can put them. Want to display your Bamboo plan summary on your Jira dashboard? Or your Fisheye charts on a Confluence page? The big list tells you how. There are gadgets that show information […]
Integrating Atlassian apps and slaying dragons
A while ago, in a land down under, some Atlassians gathered round a table and a keg of ale to discuss a perilous quest. In the course of time, Here Be Dragons was born. The quest? It’s the task of installing and setting up a suite of Atlassian applications so that they share information and […]
A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK
Atlassian supergeeks have been happily engrossed in creating a brand new Atlassian Plugin SDK, to be ready for Codegeist and then to be hyperpolished for AtlasCamp. I’m the lucky technical writer who got to document the SDK. This has been such fun – yes, really – that I decided to write a blog post about […]
Links from our docs to your blogs
Sometimes there just are gaps in our documentation. I’m an Atlassian technical writer, so I’m allowed to say that. Sometimes people have a very specific requirement or setup that is not in our scope to document. And sometimes bloggers fill the gaps by writing technical posts about how to do something cool with one of […]
The Atlassian Contributor License Agreement comes of age
In early March we opened up the Atlassian documentation to the wider community: We added a CC-by (Creative Commons Attribution) license to our product documentation. We invited people to contribute to our documentation after signing an Atlassian Contributor License Agreement (ACLA). At that stage, the ACLA was just starting its three-month trial. The trial period […]
CC license and community contributions in Atlassian documentation
Two small changes appeared on the Atlassian documentation wiki yesterday. They’re small changes, but with big ambitions. Documentation is licensed under CC-by The first change is the appearance of a Creative Commons Attribution license on the documentation pages, like this: Except where otherwise noted, content in this space is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution […]
Atlassians go Conservation Volunteering
On Friday, fifteen Atlassians went out to Long Reef to help with an ongoing bush regeneration project. Our team leaders were Matt and Emma from Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA). We were there under the auspices of the Atlassian Foundation, a company initiative driven by the interest of all Atlassians in improving our society and environment. Each Atlassian can take up to five days “Foundation leave” per year to devote to their pet project. So we went conservation volunteering.
Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide
Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide. Do you have Jira and Confluence, and you want to make them play together? Did you know that Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and Crucible can get intimate with each other, and Subversion can join the party too? Do you ask yourself, what else do the Atlassian applications get up to when […]
Using a wiki for online help
Can you use a wiki for online help? And what are the tricky bits that you might need to work around? Atlassian’s technical documentation is online, alive, and version-specific. Most of it is written, managed and hosted on our Confluence site. Being a wiki, this site is a hive of activity – we are constantly […]
Spot the plugin
Out of the box, Confluence is beaut. Add a plugin or two, and your documents glow. So which plugins do we use in the Atlassian product documentation? Here at Atlassian, we use a wiki for almost all our product documentation. On our Confluence site, you’ll find user guides, administration guides and other technical documentation for […]
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