We're using an open source project by Jasig - the central authentication service. We have a suite of different products that use it, and we want it to act as a single sign-on solution for users who have a subscription to more than one product in the suite.
A problem cropped up last week when I discovered that it was loading some information from a table at start-up, but didn't refresh the data until a restart. It should be a pretty simple task to add a cache that would reload the data every 30 minutes or so, making it simple to add another product to the auth service.
I didn't want to make a change right then because we have enough going on this week on my current project, but I didn't want to forget about it next time we dust off the codebase and add another set of features. The answer is pretty simple: we use Jira as a "story bucket" for both new features and to keep track of bugs. I just needed to create a new project for it, and dump the story in.
