The JIRA team automates it's Java build system across development and build systems.
To help scale a small Engineering Health team across a team of 60+ full time developers and growing, we built a engineering metrics system in Python. This consists of a source code scanner, custom metrics generator, as well as a ratcheted build system written in Python using git-notes as a storage mechanism.
By storing the data in git-notes, the data follows the repository which makes it extremely simple and flexible.
In this talk we'll cover how we've used core python features to build these command line tools, the overall architecture of the system, and some tips around introducing Python into your build process.
Ian currently works at Atlassian where he has worked on Bonfire, GreenHopper, Stash and JIRA. He has previously worked for Rising Sun Pictures and Maptek, and dabbled in some research, whilst completing his degree at Adelaide University. Ian enjoys discussing code over beer, and writing in the third person in speaker bios.
