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…
GitHub earned trust from enterprise and open source community alike. Stable, robust, secure and reliable. Competitors try hard but they're not even close. Everyone's happy.
One day, they announce, they are bought up by a rich, notoriously closed source software behemoth that was once sued for its monopolistic tactics. It claims its now a changed company wanting to empower developers to build the future and the only way they can do that is by buying GitHub and promises to do their best work to empower every developer to build, innovate and solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
4 months down, they declare they've built a close integration with a proprietary, overpriced issue tracking tool that is described as slow, terrible, unproductive, confusing and an utter nightmare by its users.
See it now ?