Kārlis Rozenbergs Contributor

Thanks for information. Already submitted entry: https://devpost.com/software/feed-the-troll-siege-forecast Working hard on two new features: custom Village Guardian and planning Siege Forecast, a small tactical map for exploring dependencies.

Hi Kim, app listens for Jira events and updates its own game data. It doesn't change your workflow, transition issues or write to your worklogs. For automated status changes, XP is tied to the account Jira reports as making the change. It doesn't automatically go to the issue's assignee. The XP rules are built in at the…

Thanks, Brita! That made me smile :)

Thanks, Yana! I build Feed The Troll at drinkits DEV, so you can probably guess my type :) Glad we kept Jira's built-in option in here too. Some days you want a quest, some days you just want to log the time and close the tab.

The bt about people avoiding updates is very familiar. I kept putting off worklogs and status changes until the last minute or forgot to do that at all. That led me to build Feed The Troll (I'm the dev, from drinkits). A little pixel-art troll gets XP from normal Jira work. I'm experimenting with making those chores less…

Hi nagata, I'm the dev behind Feed The Troll. It's a Forge app where status changes, worklogs and comments grow a little pixel-art troll. Teams share a village, and your troll keeps its progress across included projects. XP rules are built in tho, so no custom formulas or arbitrary events. Admins pick projects and can…

Hey @Mihai_LeanZero ! My SQL mock once happily accepted a column that didn’t exist. Production was less impressed :) What’s the weirdest Forge surprise you’ve run into?

Update for anyone who was curious, and thanks for the reception the first time round. @Darryl Lee @Allan Maxwell @Artem Taranenko @Kirsten @Kythera I've kept building since April. The big one: there's a Team Village now. Back in April each project had its own little village with its own troll. Now you can link several…

Thank you for good words! I do not have newsletter yet. All my time goes to development now. Currently I have been actively working together with one of customers who has been really proactive with great feedback and suggestions. He have helped me to shape cross project functionality, team village, permission gating etc. 

Thank you Darryl for the good words. This all started because I got really lazy at logging my work. First I was thinking about a Tamagotchi themed gamification app, but somehow the main idea led to ugly trolls. :D It keeps evolving too, I just reshaped it around "Traveling Trolls", your troll now carries its XP across…

Have additional functionality in plan: * The Backlog Dungeon (Solves: Stale Tickets & Poor Grooming) * Epic Boss Battles (Solves: Long-term Project Fatigue) * The Blacksmith's Forge (CI/CD Integration)

Hundred trolls in village looks a bit crazy. :D And little bit more images from gameplay.

Hi Kees, I actually built a tool for this called Attachment Architect, but there’s a catch regarding your bulk indexing requirement. I decided to run the OCR (Tesseract) 100% in the user's browser. This keeps the data strictly private and allowed me to keep the "Runs on Atlassian" badge since no data ever leaves Jira. The…

Hi Gregory! I am dev of Jira Cloud app Attachment Architect which supports previewing multiple file formats, OCR for images etc. Maybe this could be functionality I can bundle into app. How do you envision the configuration? * Would you define a Regex template per project? (e.g., Invoice #: (\d+)) * Or do you need a UI…

Hi Katarina, I just managed to built in OCR functionality into my attachment management app. Uses Tesseract.js library directly in Jira without the data ever leaving your browser/instance. Link to marketplace. I noticed you mentioned "inserting it into the issue." I'm looking to expand the functionality - would either of…

I just added this feature to my app, Attachment Architect. It was tricky, but I managed to get the OCR engine running 100% inside the browser (client-side). Built with Tesseract.js. 20 languages built in. Unlike other apps that send your screenshots to external APIs for processing, this keeps everything local and secure.…

Hi Markus, Jira makes this surprisingly difficult out of the box without writing custom scripts. If you (or anyone else landing here from search) are still looking for a solution, we built a Cloud app called Attachment Architect specifically for this scenario. It has an Explorer tab where you can: * Paste the JQL for your…

+1 to including attachments in the pilot scope. A pre‑migration cleanup (dedupe + large/old + low‑value sweep) shrinks payloads and reduces the odds of hitting the Standard cap. I have created free Python tool which scans Jira Data Center and gives full insight in current situation with attachments: Analyzing and Cleaning…

For teams choosing between Standard/Premium during migration: * First, reduce what you migrate: content‑hash dedupe, target large+old files, sweep logs/dumps/temp. * Then size your Cloud plan on the cleaned footprint, not the legacy bloat. I have created free Python tool to scan Jira Data Center and get current status of…

I have created free Python tool to scan Jira Data Center (on premise) and get full insight in attachments: https://www.drinkits.lv/2025/10/28/analyzing-and-cleaning-your-jira-data-center-attachments-python-tool/ Before moving DC/Server → Cloud, a quick attachments cleanup pays off: hash‑based dedupe, large/old triage, and…

I have seen storage balloon after repeated “copy attachments” actions. Two mitigations: * Deduplicate (hash‑based) and keep only the canonical file. * Review large/old attachments periodically. Attachment Architect automates both and keeps storage under…

My 3‑step cleanup: * Duplicate groups (hash‑based) → remove non‑canonicals. * Large/old files tied to inactive issues → prune. * Low‑value patterns (log/dump/temp/system files) → sweep. Attachment Architect = one scan, dashboards, bulk delete, and audit…

Hi! I have created free Python tool for scanning Jira Data Center (on premise) attachments and show full insight in attachment data: https://www.drinkits.lv/2025/10/28/analyzing-and-cleaning-your-jira-data-center-attachments-python-tool/ I have also create Cloud…

If you’re on Jira Cloud Standard, the 250 GB storage cap can get tight mostly due to attachments. Before upgrading, a quick win is removing exact duplicate attachments and low‑value files (logs, dumps, temp). Attachment Architect scans Jira, groups files by SHA‑256 hash, flags large/old files, and supports safe bulk…

If you’re on Jira Cloud Standard, the 250 GB storage cap can get tight mostly due to attachments. Before upgrading, a quick win is removing exact duplicate attachments and low‑value files (logs, dumps, temp). I have created free Python tool for inspecting attachment status in Jira Data Center. Also created Attachment…

Atlassian has some good KB how to get some information from database about attachments: https://support.atlassian.com/jira/kb/how-to-get-attachment-statistics-from-the-database-in-jiradatacenter-and-server/ This is what is counted in this 250GB limit. I have also created Python script which scans attachments in Jira (on…

The key is monitoring how much of that space is just wasted on duplicates or large files on old, closed issues. I actually built an app to find exactly that. It's called Attachment Architect and has a free trial on the Marketplace. It gives you a full dashboard of your attachment health so you can get ahead of that 250GB…

My 3‑step cleanup: * Duplicate groups (hash‑based) → remove non‑canonicals. * Large/old files tied to inactive issues → prune. * Low‑value patterns (log/dump/temp/system files) → sweep Attachment Architect = one scan, dashboards, bulk delete, and audit…

It's a great discussion. I just wanted to jump in and say that your concerns about storage are spot on—it's something that gave me a lot of sleepless nights during a similar migration project. The big challenge we faced was that we were flying blind. We didn't know if our 400 GB of DC attachments was mostly junk or…

Thank you for Python script. Your Python script is a great starting point, especially the part about fetching all attachments via pagination. For those who might not be comfortable running Python scripts or need a more integrated solution, we ended up building a Forge app to automate this whole process called Attachment…