Do I have to pay for JIRA in order to develop for it?

[Kyle Palko]

I can't find any material on this. Do I have to pay for JIRA in order to develop for it? Seems kind of unreasonable since I won't be using the service, but rather trying to help and serve others who are.

[Michael Kornatzki]

As far as i know you don't have to pay for JIRA for developing.

If you download the sdk and install it (https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started) then you can start JIRA (with atlas-run or atlas-debug).

[Michael Kornatzki]

Ahh sorry, maybe it's different for the cloud

[crf]

Atlassian is not accepting any new "P2" plugins into the Cloud offering, so any development there should be using Atlassian Connect. There are instructions available for how to enable AC for development purposes here: https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/guides/getting-started.html This is not *really* a local copy of JIRA Cloud as it states, but there shouldn't be any differences at the Atlassian Connect level.

[Hangsu Ma]

No you don't have to. It's free to develop for Atlassian ecosystem. And you decide what license you use for your plugins. All development resources atlassian provides are also free. 

But if u want to sell your plugins on atlassian market and have Atlassian handle the payment for you, Atlassian will take 25%cut of your sells.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's also a bit of a risk developing for software you don't actually use. As you don't know what it does, how it works or the quirks within it, you could easily craft something that sounds great and is utter junk. Atlassian strongly recommend "dogfooding" - use the stuff you're writing for, if for no other reason that you want to do it properly. (I recommend it too, but I hate the word)

[Kyle Palko]

I use Atlassian products everyday at work. I also use some in my private projects. I'm just doing a private project and don't want to link that to my work's Atlassian account. Even then though, you depend on your users for input to know how to improve your integration (whether you use the integration yourself or not), so I don't think that's a valid reason to not develop. Anyways, @Hangsu Ma I'm trying to persist an OAuth add-on. I had to start a free trial to set one up and get a consumer key, private key, etc. After a couple weeks they deleted my account. Now I can't even make a request for a Request Token because the site they created in the cloud isn't available anymore. For example, if I created a site called example.atlassian.net to login to JIRA. My OAuth request token URL would be: https://example.atlassian.net/plugins/servlet/oauth/request-token Because they deleted example.atlassian.net when I didn't renew after the trial I can no longer develop.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, you need to pay if you're using a Cloud account.