omega/jira-kanban-printer

A over-engineered solution for printing kanban boards automatically

JIRA Print Server

We had an urge to start trying KANBAN at the office. We use JIRA for all
issue-tracking, but we wanted a physical board, so we needed a way to print our
cards from JIRA.

The solution was this over-engineered pile of crap, with a massive amounts of
components:

• A Groovy script to plug into JIRA
  • This depends on the ScriptRunner plugin for JIRA
    • https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/6820
  • This needs to be added to a transaction that basically just goes from and to the
    same step! (Call it Print kanban card)
• A Mojolicious::Lite web-server to recieve commands from the Groovy script
• A ZeroMQ PUB-SUB from the web service to a PDFifier
  • Cause we don’t want the webserver to block, waiting for PDF production
• The PDFifier uses LaTeX to produce a PDF of an issue.
  • Not only that, it produces two identical pages!
• The PDF gets moved to a queue
• We have an AnyEvent-based daemon watching that directory
  • When files are created, it will print using CUPS and remove the PDF

Other stuff

misc/

In the misc-directory, two of the examples from the Net::CUPS-distro is included, to
aid in any debugging that might be required

tex/

This is the compiled/unpacked verion of the foils package for tex, which I got inspired to use
from this:

http://cs.acadiau.ca/~jdiamond/tex-reference-material/FancyPresentations.pdf

Resources

ØMQ-introductions

• http://nichol.as/zeromq-an-introduction
• http://mitkokostov.info/post/1151080898/zeromq-messaging-patterns
• Long: http://zguide.zeromq.org/chapter:all