As many of us use JIRA in our projects and as the startscreen is such a nice worklpce environment it would be really great if there could be the most important Due Dates/Milestones displayed e.g. in a portlet.

I want to suggest following useful addition to JIRA:

• Project Administration Page
• add date-fields to the relaese box
• at least two date fields are necessary : (1)start test, (2)delivery
• these date-fields schould then be displayed in the road map and the change history

• add a new control (like the release-control)
• Here you can enter 'Important Project Dates' (e.g. Milestones, Meetings, ...)
• Information to be entered per date: Name, Date (e.g. Trade Fair, 1.Oct.2004)
• So you can create a list of dates
• These dates should then be displayed in a new portlet
• The new portlet should only show the next 5 upcoming dates
• So every teammember always knows whats coming up

What do you think?

I would guess the effort should be medium to implement this, as this is a pretty isolated addition to the system not affecting that many other components.