Let me walk that back a bit - I have no experience of the cloudy version which unanimously seems to be derided as slow. Atlassian - you might wanna fix that. Like yesterday.
But server (& datacentre) editions - best in class for my money.
In terms of features, the Rally / Agile Central (did that just re-brand again?) rollup roadmap view is the only missing feature i crave. Atlassian should just merge the portfolio product into jira.
As for everything else - speed is absolutely fine if hosted well.
I tend to council people to try to use less features not more - often jira features are used to attempt to work around challenges that are best addressed by talking to people instead.
It integrates with everything, no matter what source control, build pipeline or IDE tooling is in use, there’s integration with jira.
The REST API is absolutely usable (mostly for workflow automation and analysis purposes).
Server starts heading towards EOL in February 2021 unfortunately. They’ve said that they will support it for three years after that date but you’ll only be able to renew licences (not buy new ones), the pricing is going up and you can’t change tiers.
Datacenter is still supported but I think they’re jacking up the price of that too.
> But server (& datacentre) editions - best in class for my money.
Well, performance wise they're as bad as the cloud version. Even when you give the instance a lot of CPU / Memory. The problem is not only the Spring application itself, the DB seems to be missing some indexes or the queries are super badly optimized. God only knows what's really happening under the hood, but my self hosted Jira instance isn't any better (I've tried them both, cloud and on-prem).
No, cloud is slow and has been slow for years. On-premise is quick enough, but only if you ensure you have no slow bottle-necks (DB, spinning disks, heavily shared virtualization).
Jira doesn't use Spring--you may be confusing it with Confluence which does.
The Structure add-on does a great job of rolling up. The Portfolio product was way too difficult to use--they rebuilt it so maybe things might be different now.
I agree there are/were the best in class for the money--but with Atlassian throwing all their resources into cloud now, raising the prices on on-premise, I worry for its future. I suspect we're only going to get timid features--nothing bold that might improve the UX/UI, or anything that will break the migration path to Cloud, which is their end-goal.
If I was starting out again, I'd probably examine YouTrack where there's at least some assurance they are investing in its future.
I kinda agree. I am fine with using Jira. Now when I know the workflow I would not bother with another tool for the same things that we are forced to use Jira for.
That said I would rather to "issue tracking and planning" in a checked in text file and maybe have some bug tracking tool rather then working with Jira.
Let me walk that back a bit - I have no experience of the cloudy version which unanimously seems to be derided as slow. Atlassian - you might wanna fix that. Like yesterday.
But server (& datacentre) editions - best in class for my money.
In terms of features, the Rally / Agile Central (did that just re-brand again?) rollup roadmap view is the only missing feature i crave. Atlassian should just merge the portfolio product into jira.
As for everything else - speed is absolutely fine if hosted well.
I tend to council people to try to use less features not more - often jira features are used to attempt to work around challenges that are best addressed by talking to people instead.
It integrates with everything, no matter what source control, build pipeline or IDE tooling is in use, there’s integration with jira.
The REST API is absolutely usable (mostly for workflow automation and analysis purposes).