Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
by trhway on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:20PM
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>whose main design goals were to bring commonality across all Atlassian products. This is a worthwhile goal
the issue here isn't the goal itself, it is that such highly visible efforts - "common platform", "common UI", etc. which are very complex technically to do right - invariably bring up to the top and into the deciding positions those "drivers of cross-organizational/functional/etc. change" style people whom you'd really want to be staying far from such important and complex technical issues...
I worked with Jira in 2012-13, it was appallingly slow. Making it even slower is an achievement.
the issue here isn't the goal itself, it is that such highly visible efforts - "common platform", "common UI", etc. which are very complex technically to do right - invariably bring up to the top and into the deciding positions those "drivers of cross-organizational/functional/etc. change" style people whom you'd really want to be staying far from such important and complex technical issues...
I worked with Jira in 2012-13, it was appallingly slow. Making it even slower is an achievement.