Just wait till jira will be converted into a backend with the frontend being Copilot. Y'all be begging to go back to Jira
I didn't like Jira before I used everything else. Now I like Jira.
Jira would be okay without needless amount of plug-ins, extensions, and dumb workflows one has to follow. Accidentally put it in the wrong state? Enjoy writing to someone who can fix it. Besides, it is slow as fuck and is getting slower with all the tickets (over 80k on our instance) it has to track. Search is shit, and it is shoving AI in my face on every step.
Plain Jira is not bad. In my second company that I work for, I set up OpenProject and it has been working flawlessly for about 5 years already, it can easily track GitLab commits, branches, and merge requests, and do basic time tracking. It has some nifty features like "budget users" when you want to do budgeting with a "ghost user".
Worry not, soon you wouldn’t have to use anything as your job would be gone.
Also, are programmers as good in identifying root causes of misery as Luddites were? Hint: it wasn’t machines, it was capitalism.
Given the reactionary position people in tech are increasingly taking with AI, I think we know the answer to that.
How I audibly chuckled at this post
Not having to use JS is below all of those.
I hate how that's the language everything is slowly converging to. Even if you don't work on websites, you always have this fear in the back of your mind that one day your project will be infected.
It's not even easy like people claim it is. I find JS significantly more difficult than Java because there are way more things that can go wrong and troubleshooting is way more frustrating. Just because the app will launch even with errors in the code does not make it easier in the long run. Compile time errors are good actually.
I feel the same way about python, too.
The way everything is just JavaScript and python, now, is really annoying.
Js is indeed painful. I find the right approach is to simply treat it as a compile target. I've worked with ClojureScript when I had to do front end work, and I find it's a huge improvement because it has sane language semantics. You have things like proper equality, comparison by value, immutable data structures, and so on. It's not perfect because you still have to deal with stuff like source maps to get errors out of minified bundles, and you have to interop when you deal with Js libraries, but it's a huge improvement overall I've found.
The Pulumi stack I've come to work on is all in typescript.
Hey I liked JIRA. I liked it even more after they forced us use Saleforce for issue tracking 💀
Jira is alright, not great, not terrible. You need something to track projects and break down work and say least being ubiquitous a lot of people are familiar with it.
Teams is a dumpster fire of excrement though.
I got fired two weeks ago and it fucks me up pretty badly.
But the fact that i don't have to use Teams, at least for a while, is just such a relief. Fuck that shit.
Sorry to hear that. Good luck finding a new gig without needing to interact with Teams again.
Any ticket system that doesn't even let you copy/paste text snippets in (like, say, a bit of JSON from a log file) without messing up the rendering¹ is terrible.
¹) In two different ways: The rich text editor mangles data one way, but when you submit your comment, Jira mangles it in a different way. You never know what you're going to get.
I used to update my tickets from Emacs org-mode where I kept my working set off knowledge. The org export functions dealt with whatever format Jira expects. Nowadays I'm mostly tracking stuff so my comments are generally never more than a "thanks", 👍 or occasionally a link to the patch series or pull requests.
People seriously underestimate how shitty most alternatives are. And any time I see people hating on Jira I never see a proper alternative mentioned.
Perhaps Teams has changed, but in the past I personally found it more efficient for text communication because it forced everything to be a thread. With Slack there's too much variety (messages & threads in channels, direct messages, huddles, canvases) which consistently leads to visibility and findability issues since everyone uses it differently. Though I understand technically they're very similar and the emphasis is mostly visual
Needs more Outlook/Sharepoint
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