I'm concentrating on fixing bugs now for liveTopics 1.0.5 which I hope to make available early next week.

A great thing about having issue management is that it actually makes fixing bugs so much easier.  I can see the bugs I am intending to fix for this release all in one convenient display, but still get at the details quickly.

One of the really cool features in JIRA is the RoadMap.

JIRA allows you to create versions in your project, both released and unreleased, and to attach issues to them.  In effect, specifying which release the bug will be fixed in.  This is pretty neat.  Then you can look at the project roadmap which will show you upcoming releases, which issues are attached to them and, by looking at how many of those issues are resolved, how close the release is to being ready.

It's a great project visualisation tool and I already have the next 4 releases of liveTopics mapped out.  I'll flesh out the issues for those as we go forwards.  If you're interested then sign up and vote!