JIRA Plugins: What do you use?

Question

JIRA is a very extensible bug/task tracking tool. As such, newcomers feel lost as to what plugins they should install.

Please share your thoughts what plugins (both free and paid) that you consider a "must-add" for JIRA!

Answer 1

We use JIRA Labels plug-in, which allows to add a "tags" field: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Labels+Plugin

Plugins that stand out the most (paid and free) are mentioned on Atlassian's plugin tour page: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/plugins/

And the company I work for develops JIRA Client, a desktop client for JIRA (paid unless you're open-source): http://almworks.com/jiraclient

Answer 2

We use quite a few extra JIRA plugins; the charts for visualizing find/fix ratios etc., Release status plugin for a nice visualization of how each release stands, the SVN integration, Linker and Activity Stream plugins for integration with Confluence, and the Firefox search portlet that lets you use JIRA as a search engine option in Firefox.

Some of our developers also like the Eclipse plugin for JIRA that lets them mabage their list of issues direct from the IDE.

The only paid plugin we tried out was Greenhopper, since we are an agile shop, but we didn't find it useful enough to be worth buying.

Answer 3

We really liked the following:

• Create and Link: Allows us to create an issue, then create another issue that automatically gets linked to the original
• JIRA Suite Utilities: Incredibly useful plug-in! The most helpful feature was it's ability to make field's required after a transition.
• JIRA Misc Workflow Extensions: multiple useful conditions and validators for work flows.

Answer 4

Here are the plugins I couldn't live without:

Timesheet report - Summarizes any user's time spent over a weekly period: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/Timesheet+report+and+portlet

Charting plugin - Generate charts from any issue navigator: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Charting+Plugin

Subversion plugin - Link and view subversion commit history to a JIRA issue: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Subversion+plugin

Labels plugin - Lets you tag any JIRA issue and search on tags: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/JIRA+Labels+Plugin