LarryBrock Community Champion

We all have those little jems that help us get through some annoying task quickly so let's share those with each other! Mine is for the email that piled up over the weekend, make one rapid pass through all the messages and a) discard the cruft, b) flag for immediate response, or c) mark "read later". Then make a second…

I am working with a governance team that is interested in cleaning up the 32 resolutions currently in place in their Jira instance. What process and techniques would you use to set up a review process? What would be a good way to determine which if any, have fallen out of use? What would a good request, review, approval,…

Atlassian released a security advisory on 3/20/2019. The full advisory is here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-03-20-966660264.html In a nutshell - Customers who have upgraded to Confluence Server or Data Center versions 6.6.12, 6.12.3, 6.13.3, 6.14.2 or higher are not affected.…

Welcome new group member @Dev Talwalker - Thanks for joining us - please take a moment to introduce yourself!

Happy Thursday all! With the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo gettiing cranked up, my question is - What's your favorite guilty food pleasure to eat at the rodeo? Is it Funnel Cake, deep-fried Snickers Bar, concession stand Nachos, one of the multitude of BBQ team goodies? Do share and pic's get extra karma! Cheers!

Disney's "Cars" was a great movie with a moving story and fantastic animation. In it, there was a bit of personality match between the model of car and the character. So my question is - If you were a car, what car would you be? Would you be a rusty wrecker like 'Mater or sleek and elegant like Flo? If you're interested,…

Happy Thursday everyone! This is usually a Tuesday thing but I've been crazy busy. I finally had a moment to breath and so here we are. Atlassian has several tools and features to help users work up to their full potential on every task. My favorite tool to work with is Confluence. I run my Venturing Crew's website on…

Welcome new group members @Tamara Elles and @konay - super exciting that you've joined us! Please take a moment to introduce yourselves.

Welcome new group members @Ben Garcia and @James Gilpin! Thank you both for your active participation in the AUG meeting tonight. Please take a moment to introduce yourselves. ~~Larry Brock

Happy Tuesday everyone! Part of getting this fledgling group up and running is helping it establish its identity. One very visual way to do that is to help find a picture that identifies and represents the Houston Group. If you take a look at this page, you'll see that we have a chance to quickly skip a step ahead of…

Great news, the Houston AUG is meeting in February! Topics: Automation in Jira and Lucidchart Diagramming When: Monday, February 12th at 5pm Where: FlightAware Eleven Greenway Plaza, Suite 2900 Houston, 77046 Register and get more details here but most importantly, join us for a great evening of education and networking!

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to @Rober Rankin, @Veronica Kolstad, and @Shelley_Smith-Woods. You three are hereby designated the founding members of this fine group! Please give yourselves a hand and consider taking a moment to introduce yourself. I'll go first but by no means should my post be considered a template -…

Howdy and welcome to the Houston Atlassian Community Space! This is a great spot to share our knowledge and experiences especially while in-person events are not safe to hold. Please introduce yourself, tell us a little about your Atlassian journey, and how you're using the Atlassian products. As you take a look around the…

Hello everyone! It's great to meet all you new folks and I'm happy to connect in yet another way with all of you I already know! It doesn't take most people very long to find out I love water sports - all water sports. I'm a lake-rat at heart, skiing, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, tubing, paddleboarding, etc. I love the ocean…

Hello everyone! It's great see the shiny new Dallas AUG Community site! I wanted to join your group as I have the privilege of knowing a few of you and I'm hope to attend a few of your meetings in the coming months. After all, Austin isn't that far away and my employer is a big supporter of the Texas AUGs! I posted this…

It has been suggested I use an existing ELK stack as the search engine for a Bitbucket DC deployment. Have you use ELK and if so, what are the good and bad points of doing so? Any particular pain-points to avoid? Thanks!