JIRA 7 doubts

[Francesc_Arbó]

I'm testing JIRA 7 EAP and I have some questions:

• Is there any way to upgrade JIRA 6 to JIRA 7?
• Which application contains the items such as issues, workflows, screens or custom fields?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

• Sort of.  A standard upgrade process applies for going from 6 to 7, but you must not use it for production.  If you upgrade a 6.x to 7-EAP, you probably won't be able to move it to 7-supported, as it is an early access release.  Quite a lot of the EAPs have not had a migration path to the new product.  EAP is for testing only.
• JIRA Core

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

You can follow the rapid upgrade method: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/upgrading-jira-using-a-rapid-upgrade-method-312738529.html

Not sure what do you mean by the second part of the question.

Just be aware of the changes in JIRA 7: https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/latest-updates/preparing-for-jira-7-0

[Francesc_Arbó]

Jobin Kuruvilla but I can have installed JIRA Service Desk without JIRA Core application. Workflows would be stored in JIRA Service Desk then?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No. If you take SD, you get Core as part of it.

[Francesc_Arbó]

Ok, every application have JIRA Core in it?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, they rely on it for all the stuff you're asking about.

[Francesc_Arbó]

Then, if you only have SD, you only pay SD license although SD have a JIRA Core inside. Isn't it?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, you'll only pay the SD licence. But it is twice what Core is. Because half of it is for Core probably.

[Francesc_Arbó]

Is there any early documentation of JIRA 7 EAP?

[Shawn C]

This should help: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Preparing+for+JIRA+7.0

[Francesc_Arbó]

Jobin Kuruvilla thank you. What I mean is in JIRA 6 a workflow is related to the JIRA application. A board is related to JIRA Agile application. So, in JIRA 7, if you have some applications instaled, JIRA Core will allways store the workflows?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Yes, correct!

[Francesc_Arbó]

Thank you for your quick answer @Nic Brough [Adaptavist].

I'm just testing it and I have not planned to use it in a Production environment because it's still an EAP version.

However I was looking for documentation and I didn't found any about it.

So, the standard upgrade process will be still valid? Executing the bin or exe file of the JIRA 7 version would upgrade the JIRA 6 version?

About the applications, if you have some applications, JIRA Core always store the items such as workflows?