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In Jira there is a fixed role “project lead” for each single project which is assigned in the projects configuration. The only default use of this role is as the default assigne of created issues. The problem here is that you can’t change this behaviour (see http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3523).

So if you assign “project lead” to the administrative project lead, the mailbox of this person will be filled up with messages on issue creation. This might not be exactly what you wanted.

What possibilities are there to avoid such a problem? (Some only for Jira Enterprise).

1. Using the role “project lead” as a proxy between customers and project team members. In this case don’t use the role “project lead” in your permission scheme, define your own role like “project manager” or similiar and use this instead. And:
   1. Assign “project lead” to a moderator or support team member.
   2. Assign “project lead” to a dummy user with a catch-all IMAP mailbox.
2. Allow unassigned issues: Check admin -> global-settings for “allow unassigned issues” and set this in the project configuration as default
3. You can configure a different default assignee for each component of a project. See http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/component_management.html
4. Edit you current Notification Scheme and remove Current Assignee from Notification on Issue Created.

In der deutschen Jira-Version wird das Datumsformat unter Administration – Globale Einstellungen Gestaltung eingestellt.
Hier ist ein Beispiel:

Datums-/Zeitformate
                            Format   Beispiel
  Zeitformat           HH:mm   22:28
  Datumsformat   EEEE HH:mm   Freitag 22:28
  Vollständiges Datums-/Zeitformat   dd. MMM yyyy HH:mm   21. Nov 2008 22:28
  Format Tag/Monat/Jahr   dd. MMM yyyy   21. Nov 2008
  Format Datumsauswahl (Format javascript)   dd. MMM yyyy (%e. %b %Y)   21. Nov 2008
  Format Datums-/Zeitauswahl (Format javascript)   dd. MMM yyyy HH:mm (%e. %b %Y %H:%M)   21. Nov 2008 22:28

Dabei muss man das Format für die Auswahl in Formularfeldern per JavaScript in einer externen Konfigurationsdatei einstellen:
WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties

Ein Beispiel:

# These two properties need to match for the datepicker to perform correctly
# The first date is in Java format
# (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html).
# The second in unix format (see the FORMAT section of http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi\
?date)
# Please note that the following options are not recognised: %c %D %E, %F, %G, %g, %h %r %R\
 %T %x %X %z %Z - _ ^ #
# After editing ensure the date picker creates valid dates, we also recommend you make this\
 format the same as Day/Month/Year Format
# in the administration section of JIRA
jira.date.picker.java.format = dd. MMM yyyy
jira.date.picker.javascript.format = %e. %b %Y

# These two properties need to match for the datetime picker to perform correctly
# The first date is in Java format
# (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html).
# The second in unix format (see the FORMAT section of http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi\
?date)
# Please note that the following options are not recognised: %c %D %E, %F, %G, %g, %h %r %R\
 %T %x %X %z %Z - _ ^ #
# After editing ensure the date time custom field picker creates valid dates
jira.date.time.picker.java.format = dd. MMM yyyy HH:mm
jira.date.time.picker.javascript.format = %e. %b %Y %H:%M

Here a very simple init script tested on Suse SLES 10. An other good way to create one is looking at the init-Script for tomcat or using just it and installing Jira as WAR into tomcat.

#!/bin/bash
# Jira startup script
# install:
# copy to /etc/init.d/jirad
# ln -s /etc/init.d/jirad /sbin/rcmy-jirad
# insserv /etc/init.d/jirad
 
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          jirad
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     3 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: Starts Jira server
# Description:       Starts Jira Issue Tracking
### END INIT INFO
# Based on script at  http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=183148
 
RUN_AS_USER=jico
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/jira
 
start() {
        echo "Starting Jira: "
        if [ "x$USER" != "x$RUN_AS_USER" ]; then
          su - $RUN_AS_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh"
        else
          $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
        fi
        echo "done."
}
stop() {
        echo "Shutting down Confluence: "
        if [ "x$USER" != "x$RUN_AS_USER" ]; then
          su - $RUN_AS_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh"
        else
          $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
        fi
        echo "done."
}
 
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        stop
        sleep 10
        #echo "Hard killing any remaining threads.."
        #kill -9 `cat $CATALINA_HOME/work/catalina.pid`
        start
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
 
exit 0