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JIRA 4 Essentials

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JIRA 4 Essentials

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Overview of this book

<p>This book will introduce you to Atlassian JIRA, the world's most popular issue tracking software. JIRA provides issue tracking and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development.</p> <p>This book will show you how to plan and design your own JIRA implementation. You will learn how to customize JIRA to adapt it to your organization and add value to your business. Chapters are structured to guide you through all the key aspects of JIRA with a practical implementation. By the end of the book, you will have built a working JIRA implementation.</p> <p>You will start by setting up your own JIRA and be introduced to all the key features in subsequent chapters. With each chapter, you will learn important concepts such as business processes and workflows, e-mails and notifications, and you will have the opportunity to put your newly acquired knowledge into practice by following a live sample JIRA implementation.</p> <p>Packed with real-life example and step-by-step instructions, this book will help you become a JIRA expert.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JIRA 4 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Notifications


Notifications associate events (both system and custom) to e-mail recipients. When an event is fired and picked up, e-mails will be sent out. Notification recipients are defined by notification types. For example, you can set them to only send e-mails to a specific user or all members from a given user group. You can add multiple notifications to a given event.

JIRA ships with a comprehensive list of notification types that will cover almost all of your needs. The following table lists all the notification types available and how they work.

Notification type

Description

Current Assignee

The current assignee of the issue.

Reporter

The reporter of the issue (usually the person who originally created the issue).

Current User

The user who fired the event.

Project Lead

Lead of the project that the issue belongs to.

Component Lead

Lead of the component the issue belongs to.

Single User

Any user that exists in JIRA.

Group

All users that belong to the specified...