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I'll tell you exactly how it got left off. I've just never heard of it. Do most HN readers have the impression that polls like this are made by some some all-

by gnosis 13y ago

I'll tell you exactly how it got left off. I've just never heard of it. Do most HN readers have the impression that polls like this are made by some some all-knowing, perfectly fair, professional editor who only puts up well researched, carefully thought out, scientific and objective options in their polls? It might surprise you, but I'm just another HN reader just like yourself. I woke up today and thought, "Hey, I'd like to know what other HN readers consider good bugtrackers. Why don't I put up a poll?" I remembered the names of a few of bugtrackers off the top of my head, but just having a few would make for a pretty lame poll. So I pulled up the wikipedia article on the comparison of bug trackers. It had a million listed, so I thought that might make for too long a poll. So I chose the ones I personally heard of, and added an "Other" category for the rest. I hope that clears up some of the mystery.

harshadura 13y ago
its quite funny to see you know about bitbucket and never heard about jira before. ;-)
yajoe 13y ago
That's fair, and you're right this is a community forum where we learn from each other. For example, just yesterday I learned about akka for the first time even though I've been writing event-driven Java and searching google for it (or something like it) for years. One reason why I found JIRA's omission so surprising is it's widely used by companies that have different departments or roles. It typically becomes the default choice when a company gets large enough to have a PM. Github doesn't scale with roles (yet). JIRA is so common, I'm curious what part of our industry you hang out in to know what growth Atlassian still has :) You probably use tools everyday that I'm also unfamiliar with -- we simply have different experiences. Disclaimer: Atlassian is about to go public... so I've been doing my research on whether to buy.

by gnosis 13y ago

harshadura 13y ago

its quite funny to see you know about bitbucket and never heard about jira before. ;-)

yajoe 13y ago

That's fair, and you're right this is a community forum where we learn from each other. For example, just yesterday I learned about akka for the first time even though I've been writing event-driven Java and searching google for it (or something like it) for years. One reason why I found JIRA's omission so surprising is it's widely used by companies that have different departments or roles. It typically becomes the default choice when a company gets large enough to have a PM. Github doesn't scale with roles (yet). JIRA is so common, I'm curious what part of our industry you hang out in to know what growth Atlassian still has :) You probably use tools everyday that I'm also unfamiliar with -- we simply have different experiences. Disclaimer: Atlassian is about to go public... so I've been doing my research on whether to buy.