The Jira API is pretty good, probably the only thing I can positively say about Jira. In a previous life I pretty much only interacted with it from the API. My

The Jira API is pretty good, probably the only thing I can positively say about Jira. In a previous life I pretty much only interacted with it from the API. My workflow was: run script to automatically grab the issue I should be working on from a predefined JQL thing, create a new branch locally and spit the contents of the issue to stdout. I'd just use my email client to reply to comments. Also had a script that would parse my own format to create bugs/features with all the random extra metadata and I'd only have to write a title/description.