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Gitlab is a double edged sword. It has bugs, some of them are near untenable (don't you dare try to diff or MR commits with binaries larger than 10 MB). It al

Gitlab is a double edged sword. It has bugs, some of them are near untenable (don't you dare try to diff or MR commits with binaries larger than 10 MB). It also has a much smaller feature set than full-blown Jira. I'm not in a scrum setting right now, but if I was I would not want to have to use Gitlab as the one-stop shop.

XorNot 5y ago
Is anyone even using the full Jira featureset? People keep telling me that X doesn't have as many features as Jira, and I'm just genuinely trying to think of what those could possibly be to justify it? Like what does Jira do that Gitlab does not do that's absolutely vital?
- dx034 5y ago
  Using all features isn't uncommon for large companies with very heterogen team structures. And there aren't many alternatives that allow companies to tailor the software as well as Jira.
- tyingq 5y ago
  Probably the biggest one vs Gitlab is cross-team functionality. Jira is very configurable that way, allowing you to share issues, epics, etc, in a very granular way. Gitlab was designed to tie things to repos directly. It does have some cross-linking, but it's clunky. That's also the basis for the cross-org reporting that makes the MBA types happy. Yes, you can debate the usefulness, but that's who is signing the checks.
- JBiserkov 5y ago
  See this from 2002: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/04/07/20020407/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/04/07/20020407/
mgbmtl 5y ago
Jira is pretty weird too, where is never clear whether it's an intended behavior or bug. As a long time user of both, I'm much happier with Gitlab, but manager-types still struggle a bit, because too much technical clutter in their UI (they just want issues/boards, not CI/CD). I got used to less features, and kind of see it as a benefit. We tend to push a product to its limits, then throw it out the window when it becomes to complex.
jeltz 5y ago
Jira is really buggy too, just a different ser of bugs so the bugginess is mostly a matter of which bugs annoy you the least.
ljm 5y ago
My experience of gitlab hasn’t been completely positive. It tries to do too many things but the problem with trying to cover so much ground is that eventually you stop working with the product and start working around it. Not to mention how cluttered the UI is because of it. It still has many positives as an alternative to GitHub that also happens to be open source, of course.

XorNot 5y ago

Is anyone even using the full Jira featureset? People keep telling me that X doesn't have as many features as Jira, and I'm just genuinely trying to think of what those could possibly be to justify it? Like what does Jira do that Gitlab does not do that's absolutely vital?

dx034 5y ago
Using all features isn't uncommon for large companies with very heterogen team structures. And there aren't many alternatives that allow companies to tailor the software as well as Jira.
tyingq 5y ago
Probably the biggest one vs Gitlab is cross-team functionality. Jira is very configurable that way, allowing you to share issues, epics, etc, in a very granular way. Gitlab was designed to tie things to repos directly. It does have some cross-linking, but it's clunky. That's also the basis for the cross-org reporting that makes the MBA types happy. Yes, you can debate the usefulness, but that's who is signing the checks.
JBiserkov 5y ago
See this from 2002: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/04/07/20020407/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/04/07/20020407/

mgbmtl 5y ago

Jira is pretty weird too, where is never clear whether it's an intended behavior or bug. As a long time user of both, I'm much happier with Gitlab, but manager-types still struggle a bit, because too much technical clutter in their UI (they just want issues/boards, not CI/CD). I got used to less features, and kind of see it as a benefit. We tend to push a product to its limits, then throw it out the window when it becomes to complex.

jeltz 5y ago

Jira is really buggy too, just a different ser of bugs so the bugginess is mostly a matter of which bugs annoy you the least.

ljm 5y ago

My experience of gitlab hasn’t been completely positive. It tries to do too many things but the problem with trying to cover so much ground is that eventually you stop working with the product and start working around it. Not to mention how cluttered the UI is because of it. It still has many positives as an alternative to GitHub that also happens to be open source, of course.