Reminder related Server and Data Center Licenses

Since Atlassian has scheduled the retirement of Server Licenses in favor of Data Center Licenses, all Apps Vendors have to provide a Data Center version of their Apps. It means to follow a Data Center Validation process with a final approbation by Atlassian.

This process consists into 2 steps :

  • A Technical Validation where the Vendor has to answer to detailed set of questions related on how the Apps is built and if it respects a set of rules around different theme : Threading, Cluster Lock Policies, Memory Usage, External integration and many other points.
    The final goal is to validate that no technical issue will be caused on a Data Center instance.

  • A Performance Validation based on a multi-node instance with 1 million of Jira issues and benchmark test.
    The final goal is to validate that no performance issue will be caused on a Data Center instance.

Currently, for all Alkaes plugins, only the 1st step has been internally reviewed. Following, these reviews, few corrections have been applied in order to make Alkaes Apps DC Compatibles (without the official Atlassian Stamp).

The Benchmark procedure for 2nd step has been initiated but no completed, since it requires a large effort around different topics :

  • few technical capabilities,
  • some dedicate time to allocate,
  • and, induced by this time to allocate, some cost in hiring dedicated servers on AWS.

At Alkaes Consulting, I am alone and not at full time, and then not currently able to invest on a short period the required effort on this validation. since I do not know the exact time needed to complete it.

As soon as I will be able to complete without consuming too much time and money, I will go forward. Until that, you will have to use Alkaes Plugins with only my own validation process.

For Alkaes Plugins already published on Atlassian Marketplace as Server plugins, you can always ...

  • Download them
  • Renew the Server License until February 2024

But you can no more ...

  • Request a Trial License
  • Purchase a Server License

For new Alkaes Plugins and future releases of existing plugins, the related JAR or OBR files will be accessible on doc.alkaes.fr . This change will occurs slowly.

The prices should be unchanged for Server licenses, but will be review for Data Center licenses in order to follow the relevant User Tiers.

The purchase and renew will have to be done directly with Alkaes Consulting without Atlassian Marketplace to order@alkaes.fr .

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