I’ve hit my 10-year anniversary with Atlassian this month! It’s been my pleasure to help found this developer community, to nurture it over the years, and, in the last couple years, to pick up where @bentley left off as the unelected and unassigned “chief community moderator”. In that informal role, I’ve been a prolific poster with >500 replies this year. I have engaged with you on community improvement topics both in this community and personally.
My biggest point of pride is the RFC program. It’s not perfect. Some concerns that you raised back in RFC-1 were proven out. Critically, we do need to work on the outcomes of these RFCs. That said, I have seen a clear improvement. We have all benefitted from the exchange, including some important course corrections. Even when the outcomes aren’t great, the general awareness of big changes happens sooner than before we had RFCs.
Despite my pride, the time has come for me to take on a new role with new responsibilities inside Atlassian. I’ll be turning focus to Rovo and building AI Agents as a member of Atlassian’s customer-focused Technical Solution Consultant team. As such, I’m stepping back from RFCs and reducing my level of engagement on general topics, with a preference for the Rovo category (or similarly tagged topics). With my time and energy focused on Rovo (for now), I didn’t want folks to misunderstand my absence in RFCs or if I don’t respond when mentioned on other topics.
I’m still here. I’ll still be answering questions. I still care that every developer can build cool things on top of Atlassian’s platform. Most of all, I hope to see you all building agents with Rovo!
@ibuchanan - thank you for all your helpful and extremely precise comments, insights and suggestions over the years. You will be missed in the ‘general’ developer community forums. Have fun with Rovo!
@ibuchanan thanks for helping this community grow and making it into what it is now. Thanks to the hard work of you, @BentleyCook , and countless others this community has become the active place of sharing, learning, caring, and discussing that I imagined for it when we first launched it all those years ago.
Good luck with Rovo!
Btw: did Rovo help with writing this post? And when will the first Rovo Dev Community agent be launched?
The post was all me. If it sounds like LLM language, it’s only because I’m “infected”. Since starting to work with Rovo, I’ve found a kind of obsession with it. Exciting times.
As for the first Rovo Dev Community agent, it was naturally my first. I wrote an agent to help turn internal project posters into RFCs. It’s not intended to replace authors, but to help them avoid the tedious rewriting of internal content. I even named it, “Ian, your RFC mentor” so that I could feel better about denying help to Atlassians.
I’m keen to build more, leveraging the Discourse API, but it will be some time before those agents would do work on end-users behalf. I need time to fully absorb the external auth implications.
with Atlassian this month! It’s been my pleasure to help found this developer community, to nurture it over the years, and, in the last couple years, to pick up where @bentley left off as the unelected and unassigned “chief community moderator”. In that informal role, I’ve been a prolific poster with >500 replies this year. I have engaged with you on community improvement topics both in this community and personally.
Congrats on 10 years!