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antoine added a comment - 24/Aug/06 10:33 AM
I agree with this request. This could be great
 ! Please watch / vote for this issue if you would like it implemented.
I voted for this a while back, but I'm still hoping they will implement this. On the business-justification side (though I admit this is weak), if I develop some expertise at home in tying JIRA and Confluence together, I could make a stronger case for implementing it at work.
I could use personal license for development and testing (restricted to 127.0.0.1 plus maybe access from up to two client machines just like Coldfusion Developer Edition (http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productinfo/product_editions/
 ). I agree with Chrison on the justification, but disagree that his argument is weak. I've used a similar license with Astaro Security Gateway for years. If it wasn't for the experience I gained from using it at home I could never have recommended it to my company and others.
I want to use the personal license to track side projects I'm working on. As those side projects grow into marketable ventures, I would like to purchase the commercial license.
Where I work, several people have requested a test environment for JIRA, where they could test configuration changes, large imports, etc. without the risk of affecting the JIRA instance our developers and customers depend on. A personal license would be sufficient for this purpose.
Whilst we do not currently issue development licenses as such, what we can do is grant 90 day evaluation license keys that can be renewed during the active maintenance period of commercial licenses. We are working on providing a 1 year development license solution in the near future. If you do require a license of this type please email to sales@atlassian.com requesting a 90 day license, please also be sure to include the email address of the commercial license holder for your company.
We have folks who are interested in developing JIRA plugins on the side, but do not have the time to do so at work. Sounds like a personal or development license would allow for this.
It does not necessarily need to be free. "Affordable" for a single developer would be fine. Consider this scenario: a small startup needs an issue tracking tool, but they have no cash. So, they go looking for a free tool. They choose something like Trac. Later, if the startup has gotten lucky and is earning decent money, inertia has set in and they are unlikely to go purchase JIRA. Atlassian is missing out on catching young new companies at this early but important decision-making point.
My Co-op placement has JIRA available for use, but no one is currently using it. When I go back to school I would like to use JIRA for my school work, in the hopes that I can learn the program and have a valuable skill. Having JIRA knowledge would be an asset towards me getting full time work where I am currently co-oped.
Please add a license akin to the Personal Confluence license (I intend on using confluence rather than mediawiki for my school work) before September 07. Another vote for a JIRA Personal License!
Together with a colleague I´ve started a small company in IT consultancy (e-Tuition), specialising in mass collaboration solutions. At our employer (Essent) we´ve succesfully implemented Confluence as a enterprise wiki. Being very enthousiastic about this we want to spread the virus and convince other companies to do the same. To present our ideas and vision to potential customers we want to use Confluence integrated with JIRA. Confluence is available for free through a Personal License but JIRA is not. Is there any way to gain free ( or affordable) acces to JIRA? This would give us the opportunity to explore all possibilities, gain expertise and experience, which would enable us beter to convince other companies to start using your products. Any updates on the '1 year development license solution'? Following up on Noam's earlier comment - any customer with a commercial or academic license now have access to a free second license for development purposes. We're still watching this issue and are responsive to user interest, but no plans for a personal license are in the works right now. In the meantime, JIRA is free for any open-source projects, non-profit organisations and charities as described at http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp
> In the meantime, JIRA is free for any open-source projects, non-profit organisations and
> charities as described at http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing.jsp
Speaking of which (and I'm not trying to start a big side trail here) why does the community license specifically require that an organization be "secular?" Secularism itself, when taken as a worldview, is considered something of a religion by many, and there is certainly no automatic filtering process by which all dangerous fanatic groups in the world wind up being secular or religious. But is this the intent - to keep JIRA from being used by fanatical groups? If so, why not put down "non-fanatical" instead of "secular?" :o) In the interest of full disclosure, and to answer a question which may have formed in some people's minds while reading this question, I represent two entirely separate non-profit organizations: one is the Cedar Amateur Astronomers (http://www.cedar-astronomers.org Thanks, Hi Chris,
In response to your side question on why Atlassian only donates software to secular charities; we don't wish to promote or discriminate against organisations that propagate belief in a specific faith. Donating software to charities that are affiliated with religious organisations is not in line with our neutral stance. I do see your point about 'secular but fanatic' groups though - after all, Atlassian is secular but we're still fanatic about JIRA Please try to keep further discussion in this feature request to the topic of personal licenses. A personal license would mean that all my issue tracking business and personal would use JIRA. I use a paid license at Hertz as a contractor and I use a free license at AppFuse as a committer. If I build my business to more than one employee in the next year or so, then I'm definately shelling out the $1500 for a standard license.
But until then, it would be really, really nice to have one like I do for Confluence. Please? Would be a great possibility to test workflows and plugins without touching the working environment.
Voted Hi Maarten,
All commercial customers can request a free developer license in addition to their commercial license, to allow them to run a second JIRA instance for non-production purposes such as testing, staging or plugin development. See http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/licensing-faq.jsp#staging_server Cheers, I'd even be happy wtih cheap, unsupported, per seat licensing to get started. I want the enterprise features for a few side projects I'm working on with a friend, but since none of them are done yet, there's no money, so I can't afford a real enterprise license. I'd happily pay $50/seat/year or something like that, and I don't need the commercial support.
I am a student and would like to set up JIRA on my home-linux-server.
At the moment, I use Subversion, Hudson Continuous Integration and Trac. But I would rather like to use JIRA for our project in the second year of Computer Science. So a personal license would be nice. This would be great for adding notes and keeping up daily tasks. This is also good
for people who want to develop plugins, but can't shell out a ton of money for the Standard+ versions. PLEASE DO THIS (even if you don't get enough of votes) !!!!!! Is it possible to get a Jira personal license (like the confluence one) that would enable me to start using the product on a personal level. From here I can leverage justification for purchasing a full license for use within our company.
Whilst I can immediately recognise the benefits of using this product, I'm going to have to justify its purchase to our directors who really need to see the real business benefits over and above our existing issue (HelpSpot) tracking system. The free personal license (or something like it) is necessary for startups who want to begin and grow using JIRA. Its ironic that Mike C-B has such a great reputation as a startup mentor. Without a free or minimal-cost starting point for JIRA, Atlassian is losing startups to the open-source alternatives. What's the incentive to switch to JIRA after a startup has inertia built up on a different issue tracker?
My recommendations:
I agree with your statement about trying other alternatives. While I want
JIRA for my own business and personal use (team of one consultant), I found Mantis to be a good choice for my open source stuff only because it uses PHP and MySQL (the popular hosting products). Half my macbook is full of Confluence writings and would be Jira if I could I do hope Atlassian is watching these posts. Thanks, David Whitehurst I need a personal license for learning purpose. Every time I have received a license it has expired before I find enough time to learn it. If we could have a limited functionality license (but unlimited time or longer time) it would be great.
+1 from here.
I have bought JIRA & Confluence for two Companies now. Confluence was quite easy to sell to the management because i use a personal license that i could mess with for presentational purposes. With Jira, you could either present an empty one (quite useless) or a live one from OpenSource (where you obviously don´t mess with the content). Having a personal one i could screw up in a presentation and restore the backup afterwards would be really nice. ...does all the recent activity mean we're getting close to this being a reality? :-D
offers Michael a virtual beer Seriously, this will help increase the adoption rate by making it more accessible for prototyping/testing. I'm looking forward to being able to enlighten more folks of the JIRA-goodness, and as others have commented, having a portable non-production instance makes this much easier. Thanks for all your hard work! For me, the 30-day limit on the evaluation is the real barrier to being able to convince the decision-makers in my organization on the benefits of JIRA. I may have to demo to a number of different audiences to get support for proceeding with a commercial purchase and typically the only time I have to work on a JIRA demo is between my regular project workload. The time needed to develop a poignant demo and subsequently schedule demo time with the decision-makers has blown the 30-day evaluation period (twice).
A longer (90 or 120-day) evaluation period might work in my situation, but a personal license that would allow me to work according to my own (and other's) schedules would really fit the bill. Reading these other posts, I think it's clear that many others are in similar situations where a 30-day trial period just doesn't work given the real-world time constraints and priorities of certain IT shops. Also, can someone from Atlassian please explain why there is a personal Confluence license but none for JIRA? Is the logic behind ignoring this feature request business-related (potential revenue loss?) or demand-related (not enough) or something else? @Michael Tokar
There are a variety of scenarios lumped under this issue.
Can you share with us which of these scenarios are being considered? Hi,
We are working on adding personal licenses to JIRA 4.0, which should be 3-6 months away. In the meantime, all Atlassian evaluations can be extended up to 90 days once you've begun your trial. When you get close to the end of the 30 days, our sales team will email you to see how the trial is progressing. You can ask for a new trial key then or extend the trial directly from your Atlassian account at http://my.atlassian.com I hope that this clarifies things. Thanks to everyone for their patience and votes Cheers, I'd just like to chime in here for those that haven't read the thread that you can already get JIRA licenses for development purposes if you're a commercial customer. You can now generate them straight with one click from http://my.atlassian.com
as far as I know.
The new personal license will be free, allow up to 3 users, and full plugin access etc. It is also not restricted to 127.0.0.1 (personally, that has always pissed me off when it comes to personal licenses!). m I am using your Issue Tracking product at work and love it (I'm a new user, by the way).
I sent an email to the sales team and was directed here. I think that a personal development edition would be wonderful tool for me to completely learn the product outside of the scope of my use at work | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal JIRA license
