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Wow, now we need to migrate to the cloud... and have requests take like 5 times longer? That will be the time where I‘ll migrate of Atlassian products ro somet

Wow, now we need to migrate to the cloud... and have requests take like 5 times longer? That will be the time where I‘ll migrate of Atlassian products ro something else. No way I‘m going to use a cloud-product that is that slow. What are good alternatives to Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence?

dangus 6y ago
Gitlab can replace nearly all of it, and it’s open source. Bitbucket is absolutely terrible. Jira is over-complicated and a server administration nightmare. I probably like Confluence the most, ironically I didn’t like it until we switched to the cloud version and actually started getting new features and fixes (since nobody has time to actually maintain and upgrade it on-premise).
- djeiasbsbo 6y ago
  I think that confluence can just as easily be replaced by gitlab. Keeping documentation as markdown files in a git repository seems like a great idea. Personally I think it is even better considering ideas like automated checking for outdated documentation and such.
  - chrisandchris 6y ago
    I don‘t know, Confluence allows to easily attach and embed files. It’s a really nice WYSIWYG editor. You can embed draw.io diagrams, you have a lock of „blocks“ and tools you din’t get in a simple markdown editor. It is very (my words) intuitive even for non-technical people and it has mobile apps. I don‘t know how to explain to use git to somebody who isn‘t technical savvy at all...
    - djeiasbsbo 6y ago
      Fair enough but to some developers who know how to use git it could work. Regarding files and embedded stuff, gitlab could just be used as a file host and webserver also. It think it now displays a download button for blobs. But yeah, maybe not for non-technical people...
- chrisandchris 6y ago
  It can replace Jira and Bitbucket, yes. But I can‘t see it replacing Confluence... Confluence was fine for me on Server, but the cloud version is really slow. Try to use it on an underperforming notebook and you‘ll constantly see „something wen‘t wrong, try reloading“.

dangus 6y ago

Gitlab can replace nearly all of it, and it’s open source. Bitbucket is absolutely terrible. Jira is over-complicated and a server administration nightmare. I probably like Confluence the most, ironically I didn’t like it until we switched to the cloud version and actually started getting new features and fixes (since nobody has time to actually maintain and upgrade it on-premise).

djeiasbsbo 6y ago
I think that confluence can just as easily be replaced by gitlab. Keeping documentation as markdown files in a git repository seems like a great idea. Personally I think it is even better considering ideas like automated checking for outdated documentation and such.
- chrisandchris 6y ago
  I don‘t know, Confluence allows to easily attach and embed files. It’s a really nice WYSIWYG editor. You can embed draw.io diagrams, you have a lock of „blocks“ and tools you din’t get in a simple markdown editor. It is very (my words) intuitive even for non-technical people and it has mobile apps. I don‘t know how to explain to use git to somebody who isn‘t technical savvy at all...
  - djeiasbsbo 6y ago
    Fair enough but to some developers who know how to use git it could work. Regarding files and embedded stuff, gitlab could just be used as a file host and webserver also. It think it now displays a download button for blobs. But yeah, maybe not for non-technical people...
chrisandchris 6y ago
It can replace Jira and Bitbucket, yes. But I can‘t see it replacing Confluence... Confluence was fine for me on Server, but the cloud version is really slow. Try to use it on an underperforming notebook and you‘ll constantly see „something wen‘t wrong, try reloading“.