• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Um is there anything to know? Jira is a basic CRUD app that’s backed by reasonably good deployment, operations, marketing, sales, and low enough prices for smaller plans that people don’t bother to self-host their own alternative. But it doesn’t seem mysterious how it works.

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      Jira is just part of Atlassian’s offerings. You’ve got the second-rate Wikipedia knock-off that is Confluence, the will-it-won’t-it play video hosting of Loom, and BitBucket with its bizarrely awful API performance and rate limits for a Git host. Admittedly, I used to think that BB presented pull requests in a more reviewable way than eg. GitHub, but they’re abandoned the things that made it distinctive in exchange for the follow-the-leader approach, so now it’s just a less-good GH. And I don’t say that lightly, it’s a low bar to limbo under.

      In fact, I kind of prefer managing tickets via post-its on a whiteboard then using Jira, as it actually allows you to see everything important at a glance, and micromanaging middle management don’t get to set up bizarre and wonky workflows and rules, and a thousand bullshit fields to fill in on every ticket.