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Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

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Post by stinos »

bpchaps wrote: post #40
memset wrote: post #26

I don't understand the negativity in this thread. Or why people are using this post as an impetus to (ostensibly) move to gitlab. Or lament the decline and fall of github. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Jira. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Github. You can continue to use both without adopting any of the UX or design or workflows or whatever of the other. This blog post is just saying "now we have an officially-supp…

It's because many of us have worked at companies that use JIRA extensively. It's a tool that marks the sign that a company cares more about the management of staff as units, instead of caring about employees as breathing and creative forces. It makes management's job easier, but it does nothing for the managed, except lead to frustration and hundreds of emails that have to be waded through for that 5% chance of relev…

It's a tool that marks the sign that a company cares more about the management of staff as units, instead of caring about employees as breathing and creative forces

That's almost too easy to counter, having worked at a startup with just 3 employees, all devs, and no typical managment whatsoever. Jira was and after like 10 years still is, the go-to tool for bug tracking and it does the job just fine, after a one-time and somewhat lengthy setup phase. Which is obviously nothing compared with the years of use..

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

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Post by bicubic »

kasey_junk wrote: post #37
memset wrote: post #26

I don't understand the negativity in this thread. Or why people are using this post as an impetus to (ostensibly) move to gitlab. Or lament the decline and fall of github. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Jira. Nobody is forcing anyone to use Github. You can continue to use both without adopting any of the UX or design or workflows or whatever of the other. This blog post is just saying "now we have an officially-supp…

It’s a sign of how bad JIRA is. The tool is so bad that people (including me) want the integrations to be hard simply to have a reason not to use it.

I think it's less a sign of how bad JIRA is, and more how bad project management and project managers are in software development.

JIRA can be a decent tool. The issue is the way that 90% of all businesses big and small use it, is just so that managers can shrug off any responsibility for understanding the projects they're managing, and wall themselves off in JIRA bureaucracy.

Engineers have not taken too kindly to it.

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#143

Post by caoilte »

dhnsmakala wrote: post #30

Can someone explain all the Jira hate to me? Yeah it's an ugly UI. But once you are used to how it works, doesn't it do the job fine? I don't spend that much time in task management software, just need to look up my tasks...

it's sloooooooow.

i can create two tickets in trello in the time it takes jira to load a page.

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#145

Post by knocte »

dagenix wrote: post #43
knocte wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taiga and GitlabIssues are not too bad. Bugzilla was good 5-10 years ago, now I see it as too complex (and it's written in Perl...).

> and it's written in Perl I don't personally much like Perl for my own projects. But, why in the world would you care if some other project is written in Perl?

Because being an opensource project means you could contribute bugfixes/features to it? But being in Perl would make that insurmountable...

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#146

Post by knocte »

tomc1985 wrote: post #54
knocte wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taiga and GitlabIssues are not too bad. Bugzilla was good 5-10 years ago, now I see it as too complex (and it's written in Perl...).

It was written in Perl when it was fashionable to write in Perl And it probably has fewer dependencies than a node.js hello world app

I hate node.js maybe more...

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

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Post by tilolebo »

So I installed it, configured it, the sync status is "COMPLETE" but I can't see anything related to github in my JIRA issues that are mentioned in PRs and commits.

Is there an extra step to perform? The 3rd screenshot in https://github.com/marketplace/jira-software-github shows an "ACTIVE" status.

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#148

Post by fnord123 »

bicubic wrote: post #142
kasey_junk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a sign of how bad JIRA is. The tool is so bad that people (including me) want the integrations to be hard simply to have a reason not to use it.

I think it's less a sign of how bad JIRA is, and more how bad project management and project managers are in software development. JIRA can be a decent tool. The issue is the way that 90% of all businesses big and small use it, is just so that managers can shrug off any responsibility for understanding the projects they're managing, and wall themselves off in JIRA bureaucracy. Engineers have not taken too kindly to i…

How can it be a decent tool if any operation takes

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Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#149

Post by polityagent »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #58
smcleod wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I've had nothing but a bad time with Jira, it's slow / high latency and high impact to use - combining that with GitHubs poor UX and I guess they're made for each other :/

While I agree that Jira is slow and generally a total pain to use (I can almost hear the JVM roaring 8000km away), I think Github is the contrary: fast with very good UX.

it is odd that JIRA is so slow, and I doubt it's due to the JVM. Clubhouse is built using clojure and is delightfully fast to use. (not affliated, just a Dev who has used mingle, Jira and clubhouse)

Re: GitHub and Jira Software Integration

#150

Post by DocTomoe »

caoilte wrote: post #143
dhnsmakala wrote: post #30

Can someone explain all the Jira hate to me? Yeah it's an ugly UI. But once you are used to how it works, doesn't it do the job fine? I don't spend that much time in task management software, just need to look up my tasks...

it's sloooooooow. i can create two tickets in trello in the time it takes jira to load a page.

Those honestly can't be good, well-thought-out tickets, though.
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