How can I open Jira to the public for feature voting? What license scheme do I need for doing this?

[Lacides Adolfo Guzman]

This is based on what is on your how it works page:

"Open your JIRA to the public and crowdsource feature requests and product improvements straight from your customers."

[James Crowther]

Also want to do this, during the product - market fit stage of startups or corporate venturing this feature would be VERY useful.

Agree that other platforms already do this, but Brightidea costs north of $100k (Australian dollars) for a year license, makes no sense for startups to purchase this for their startup phase, only large corporates can typically afford it. Other crowdsourcing platforms are similarly priced leaving small teams or startups with little choice here.

If JIRA could open even anonymous voting (i.e. no user account created but some user demographic data could still be captured) on features/issues that would be a huge step forward. Incidentally, most crowdsourcing platforms I have used have an anonymous post function so it seems that there are already use cases in other platforms for this.

C'mon Atlassian, you know you want to do this

[Jörg Decker]

We will lunch or product in a few weeks and would also like to provide a public feature voting. It would be very nice to mark Jira issues as "public visible" and make them available on the our website for voting. Does anybody have an idea how to do it without developing everything on our own?

Thanks ;)

[Sacha Veillette]

Not so much an answer as a further question, and a comment in disguise:

Has anything changed in the last year (since this question was posted), other than the disappearance or move of the JIRA plugin for Brightidea?

I'm also interested in setting up the same kind of customer voting scheme...

[Renjith Pillai]

Voting and watching requires that the user is logged in as a valid Jira user. So if you mean public voting as anonymous, I doubt whether that is supported OOTB.

That statement of Atlassian, I assume, expects that the each of your customers has a valid login to your Jira system. If you have an unlimited license, you can enable 'Sign Up' option in Jira for the public to vote on your issues.

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

Voting and watching via the web interface does require a JIRA login, it does require a created user account (but that account does not require interactive privilege, ie a JIRA seat).

There is nothing stopping someone doing this non-interactively, (e.g. through email) which may not appropraite for all, so agree that the intuitive thing is to login to JIRA, OOB yes, you'd need to allow people to sign in, however, depending on the size of your 'crowd' that might be quite costly.

There are a bunch of 'crowdsourcing' options, where an alternate sytstem is used, such as Brightidea, for which there is a JIRA plugin available. I'm sure others will also chime in here!

That approach will enable the separation of the 'crowd' from eating your JIRA licenses, possible assisting in the use of a license appropriate for 'actual' JIRA users.