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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by petetnt »

emdowling wrote: post #242
robinhood wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what are the things you don't like with Github issue tracker?

Personally (and I'm not sure if JIRA fixes this, but Trello gets around it), the biggest issue I have is that Github treats repositories as the only possible context. Say a bug comes in that covers multiple repositories (e.g.: requires a mobile app fix and a backend fix), then you need to create two completely seperate issues and remember to link them manually. This breaks down very quickly. I would much rather issue…

You can use GitHub Projects at organization level now.

https://github.com/blog/2272-introducing-projects-for-organi...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by sanguy »

This is really bad as Atlassian is like a prize winning show pony -- great marketing and webinars but once you get deeply into the product usage you find all sorts of problems and open issues. BitBucket has been waiting for 2FA for 5 years! Bambo was recently semi-retired going against a lot of users investments. And these are just recent.

I would not expect wonderful things for Trello and thankfully it appears they got their money out up front.

My words of advice to anyone looking is to stay away from Atlassian at all costs. Once your in too deep you probably are trapped - which is what they count on.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by acejam »

emdowling wrote: post #242
robinhood wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what are the things you don't like with Github issue tracker?

Personally (and I'm not sure if JIRA fixes this, but Trello gets around it), the biggest issue I have is that Github treats repositories as the only possible context. Say a bug comes in that covers multiple repositories (e.g.: requires a mobile app fix and a backend fix), then you need to create two completely seperate issues and remember to link them manually. This breaks down very quickly. I would much rather issue…

You can create organization-wide projects that are not repository specific with GitHub.com.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by dmcginty »

athenot wrote: post #264
SonOfLilit wrote: post #254

Open letter to Atlassian: Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanba…

I think Atlassian is indeed acquiring Trello to fit it in with the rest of their suite. This is probably going to be done to the detriment of the other use cases. On the bright side, this might pave the way for a new product in this space, or some open-source tools which replicate the same basic funtionality.

Open source alternatives are already out there. Wekan is one of the more popular ones. I'm not sure if it has all of the features of Trello as I haven't used Trello extensively. https://github.com/wekan/wekan

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by iffycan »

dmcginty wrote: post #274
athenot wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Atlassian is indeed acquiring Trello to fit it in with the rest of their suite. This is probably going to be done to the detriment of the other use cases. On the bright side, this might pave the way for a new product in this space, or some open-source tools which replicate the same basic funtionality.

Open source alternatives are already out there. Wekan is one of the more popular ones. I'm not sure if it has all of the features of Trello as I haven't used Trello extensively. https://github.com/wekan/wekan

It misses a few of Trello's features (including keyboard shortcuts and checklists) but it's close.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by heywire »

lmm wrote: post #193
maxxxxx wrote: post #68

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For some reason the enterprise version doesn't support mercurial, it's only git.

The reason is it's a completely unrelated product (previously known as "stash") that Atlassian pretends is somehow connected for branding reasons.

...grumble grumble...Skype for Business...OneDrive for Business...

(hate it when companies do this)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by arielm »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #254

Open letter to Atlassian: Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanba…

I completely agree with the sentiment, but my gut says this acquisition isn't about Trello becoming a part of Atlassian but rather Atlassian trying to venture away from their set of dev tools.

Why, you ask? As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers if they want to continue growing at a healthy rate, and Trello offers that exactly. I believe that's why they paid such a hefty price for it.

It just wouldn't make sense to throw away all those users...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by finnh »

WayneBro wrote: post #143
akjainaj wrote: post #111

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It's okay. It's just that I tried to use it a few months ago and saw they still don't even have syntax highlighting for diffs. It's pretty depressing and it makes it look like they have abandoned the service.

I've been using BitBucket for years and the lack of syntax highlighting for diffs has never even occurred to me. Why would you want to use such a limited diff tool at all? Personally, I use the best diff tool that I can find and so far that's BeyondCompare from Scooter Software.

I'm with you. I use Araxis Merge. Stupid expensive, but considering I diff dozens of times a day ... worth every penny.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by randlet »

sanguy wrote: post #272

This is really bad as Atlassian is like a prize winning show pony -- great marketing and webinars but once you get deeply into the product usage you find all sorts of problems and open issues. BitBucket has been waiting for 2FA for 5 years! Bambo was recently semi-retired going against a lot of users investments. And these are just recent. I would not expect wonderful things for Trello and thankfully it appears they…

I've been using BitBucket 2FA for a while now.
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