We get lots of feature requests for GitLab and BitBucket support so those are two likely points to integrate with next.
Well OK but at that point it is kind of redundant with DSMs anyway ... but I guess it fulfills product owners micro-management fantasy land.
Ticket update overhead sucks.
[1] https://clubhouse.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207540323-Us...
It's borderline racist. Would you call a project management tool "Jewhub" or "Catholichub"?
No, its not. Zen isn't a race (or even ethnicity).
Its perhaps religiously insensitive to Zen Buddhists; I'm really not sure how they tend to view the fact that -- largely through non-religious philosophical works directly influenced from contact with, though not necessarily relaying the teachings of, Zen Buddhism -- rather than, e.g., hostile stereotyping of Zen Buddhism -- the term "zen" has taken on a more general sense of simplicity and minimalism in popular culture, which is actually what the name directly relates to.
I am aware of the use the term has taken on in popular culture, divorced from its original context -- that's precisely what I'm complaining about.
This trend is nothing more than ongoing cultural appropriation of exotic cachet and a watered-down stereotyped design aestheic from a faraway foreign ethnicity, in order to seem cool and sophisticated to other westerners. Websites labeled Zenwhatever have nothing to do with actual zen. It's a philosophical blackface minstrel show.
That the stereotypes being promoted about an ethno-religious identity seem to be positive and flattering is irrelevant. Few people would call their accounting software "Jewbook" to trade on a supposedly positive and flattering image of Jews as prudent financial managers -- yet "Zenefits" is supposedly fine.
Indeed, 50 or 100 years ago, many people widely used the word "Jew" as an adjective in a positive and flattering sense related to "having business acumen" or "being a good negotiator," and when challenged offered very similar defenses to the one you just offered, about how "jew" had by then become a generic word for something good, divorced of its original context, and not a religious stereotype or insult in any sense.
In Japanese culture, incidentally, Zen is most typically associated with Japanese racial superiority ideology and far-right wing militarism. How ironic considering its cachet among young, cool progressive types in the west!
This is actually why we created ZenHub[1] to take this work flow to the makers rather than the managers.
We find this provides higher quality data and improves productivity by reducing context switching. Im interested to hear everyones thoughts about this integrated approach vs siloed tools like Jira. In my biased opinion the days of having a separate tool for this are numbered (see also the GitLab issue board release)
[1] https://www.zenhub.com/