Re:I fucking hate Jira
by polotics on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:41PM
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Does Linus use JIRA on that little project called the Linux kernel? Why is git with good readmes and clear pull requests not enough project management?
If you're not doing PR's you are just LARPing software development.
I don't hate JIRA, I hate "IT" employees that can't program.
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No Linus uses Bugzilla [1]. Have you ever used it? You'll be begging for Jira once you've used Bugzilla.
Also Linux doesn't use pull requests. GIT doesn't even know the concept of a PR. You are supposed to generate a patch with 'git format-patch' and submit it to a mailinglist.
git doesn't know the concept of a Pull Request? https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
Bugzilla is for bugs and that's the point, right? A project is not a set of bugs...
A GIT "request-pull" generates a (mail) text with a patch which is to be send to a mailinglist. It's just the automated version of 'git format-patch' which also generates the e-mail message text. It is nothing like a Github PR.
What's wrong with Bugzilla?
The Kernel isn’t managed solely through patches and README files. There is often a lot of up-front communication and documentation.
My takeaway is that the planning and the issue/bug-tracking and the patch submissions are three seperate somewhat independent processes. There are no managers trying to group all the tickets into patches and patches into projects in some sort of neat (but illusionary) hierarchy.