About our current production setup:
GOALS
We want to test the upgrade to JIRA 8, then check for any incompatibilities. I am trying to follow the Best Practices as suggested in this KB,
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Upgrade-Best-Practices/ba-p/932563
So, I have cloned the VM, then restricted its access to the public Internet, i.e., it cannot communicate with any other internal server. I have confirmed that I have working access to the Atlassian Market, e.g. I was able to update the Universal Plugin Manager (from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3). I am now prepared to test the full upgrade?
QUESTIONS
To answer your question about your license. On https://my.atlassian.com/products/index
If you expand the line item for your Jira server, you should be able to "View Developer License"
From my interactions with Atlassian Support, that is the recommended license to use for a non-production environment.
As far as "All the things I don't know ??" - We upgraded from 7.5.0 to 8.1.0 and on our test server we had a focus group of users from the various teams connect to the test server (which had a copy of our production data) and we had them "pretend" to do work to make sure that the UI changes and the new features were functioning for the way they interact with the system. We discovered a couple of our pluigins were working as expected and we needed to wait for those to beupdated before we were able to upgrade. That is the one thing if you can organize it that I would recommend to everyone.
I hope that helps.
-James
Thanks, James! Yes, I will definitely get some dept mgrs to login to the test server and look around.
I guess the whole question about licenses is moot if I switch the test server to the 'dev' license? But what about the licenses on our add-ons? How are the licenses being enforced -- or are they? Obviously, things would be a lot simpler if they weren't being strictly enforced.
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Hi Tony,
That I unfortunately can't help you with as the only add-ons we have installed are free ones.
Sorry I can't offer anymore help there.
-James
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