Acting on the suggestion of one of our more prolific members, we've decided to create a new group for "Community Authors."

These folks have each contributed greatly in the past by writing plugins and answering questions in Confluence and on the mailing lists, and we're excited open up some of the semi-official documentation. Community Authors will, in addition to all of their normal rights, have permission to add and edit pages in the JIRAand the Confluence spaces.

I've seeded the group with all of the folk who already have Subversion access. However, if there are other users you would like to nominate – solid contributors to the mailing lists or the wiki – let me know and I can add them as well.

Right now, the following people are Community Authors:

• Dan Hardiker (from Adaptavist)
• David Peterson (author of plugins to numerous to list)
• Bob Swift (likewise)
• Brendan Patterson (Confluence developer extraordinaire)
• Danny Chen (original author of the scripting macros)
• Guy Fraser (from Adaptavist)
• Jon Pither (author of the JIRA Agile plugin)
• Simon Mittag (author of the JMAGE plugin)
• Binyan (author of the JIRA Clearcase Plugin)