Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?

Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by edwinnathaniel on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:14PM (#12323501)

I remember last year I was going to start playing around with Atlassian JIRA API because of the massive installation my employer has (hosted internally, today's version: JIRA v6.3.11) and the experience was like an uphill battle.

If I want to get started again, where would you suggest me to look? I believe one should start with basic JIRA knowledge to understand the fundamental of the software/system/service before they continue to tackle the API (I believe most people, except Managers, use JIRA as told without knowing some fundamental idea behind it).

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by wadenick on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:39PM (#12323691)

So you're going to develop something for JIRA Server (internally hosted software). You'll be using Plugins2*

1. Start here https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/getting-started/gett...

2. Install the SDK (it has some pre-reqs) and build Hello World https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started/set-up-...

3. Bone up on Plugins2 a bit more https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-platform/buildi...

4. API Reference https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis (I recommend the REST APIs + Webhooks wherever possible).

I'm really keen to talk with you about your experience going through that - there's a lot of history and we're aware we need to clean up the journey.

_* If you were developing for JIRA Cloud you'd be using Atlassian Connect.

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by wadenick on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:47PM (#12323759)

Also note you're on an old version of JIRA so check that you're reading the related version of the API references.

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by edwinnathaniel on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:57PM (#12324116)

So Plugins2 and Connect are different?

Like there's no one JIRA API via REST or something?

Thanks for the reply and the links. Really appreciate it!

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by wadenick on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#12346837)

Sorry I'm late here. Yes those are different, given the differences between the software running in the cloud and running on customers' own servers.

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by rmanalan on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:35PM (#12323654)

I'd start at https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/i....

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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by wadenick on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:41PM (#12323706)

This developer is asking about developing for JIRA Server though, so I pointed them straight at that content. Connect is great for JIRA Cloud.

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