someone on here a few years back said "You dont hate Jira. You hate that it's a mirror". It meant that Jira just reflects whatever your busines management policies are and I think there is some truth in it.
And many more things.
Huh? That must be configuration on your project. I haven’t experienced that.
I’ve never used Jira but every task or list program that I’ve used does not reflect me and to do it I would have to manage it constantly.
It doesn’t reflect the context switching I do, or all the communication I do outside it to make it work, or my notes on how I’m going to do a thing… rarely is it accurate on my time and so on.
Is this just a restatement of Conway's Law[1]?
It's slow, it's clunky, it's ugly, it's bug ridden, it's unloved, and nobody understands it.
May it die a quick death.
Did I also mention it's slow? I think I wrote this entire comment faster than one Jira page navigation. Maybe two, if I have to be charitable.
I used to get snotty comments from people opining about how awful Perl was and how great python etc was.
The funny thing when it was time to get something done, I’d be finished by the time they hacked together whatever python dependency shitshow they were buried in.
Perl’s time is in the past, but I wrote a ton of it, and some is still running in production in a few places 20+ years later.
I needed a point of reference for the analogy. If I'd mentioned PHP instead, people would have come out of the woodwork and vigorously protested.
I figured there wouldn't be many Perl fans left. (Still tongue in cheek.)