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I have often wondered why people use things like Jira, Gitlab, Confluence etc when there are better, simpler, cleaner, and more stable alternatives are availabl
by crossroadsguy 4y ago
I have often wondered why people use things like Jira, Gitlab, Confluence etc when there are better, simpler, cleaner, and more stable alternatives are available. I always assumed it must be that these are much cheaper than the alternative. Or a compliance need to install things and keep data on your own infrastructure.
- dijit 4y agogitlab is pretty nice mostly because of the CI system and runners, the groupings of things, the permissions (deploy tokens etc;) and the way it handles merge requests. Jira is used mostly because it's "okay" at doing things the agile way, it's impressive how few things actually have the concept of a backlog or sprints (Asana for instance has neither despite costing 4x as much). I can't honestly find a decent replacement for confluence that would allow non-techs to also write documents. :\ I would hate myself for saying all this 4 years ago, but unfortunately I am now in a position where I have the ability to inflict my personal tool choices on people and these are the least bad options sadly.