Atlassian debuts new Jira Software Cloud with timeline view, configuration flow
Well, that&#x27;s fun. The linked blog post doesn&#x27;t seem to exist.  I can find no mention of this new release on Jira&#x27;s blog anywhere.  Plus, there&#x27;s no release date for these features (which seem like desperately needed improvements) anywhere.  Matches my experience with Jira so far.<p>Our PM team recently requested we move from Waffle to Jira, since Waffle has no backlog management and Github&#x27;s is lacking from a PM point of view.  As a developer, this is a giant leap backwards.<p>Jira is a terrible mess of throw spaghetti at the wall and hope it works out.  A jumble of all the features you could possibly want, half-assed and thrown together with terrible UX.  The data model is non-sensical (everything is shared between projects - if you create a status, a field, an issue type, it becomes the one true object shared by everyone), making the damned thing impossible to configure.<p>The way kanban boards currently work is that they don&#x27;t scroll.  They adjust their horizontal scaling to shove all the columns on to the screen.  Dragging cards between them frequently fails, because when you are dragging, you can end up scrolling and that will knock Jira&#x27;s awareness of the card&#x27;s position out of whack.  When you drag the card, it greys out the board and highlights the columns you can drop it in in green - which is how I know that Jira&#x27;s position tracking gets out of whack.  After I&#x27;ve dragged to cause an accidental scroll, the column I&#x27;m hovering over will fail to highlight, but the one two columns over will highlight.<p>The whole thing needs to refresh every time you make a change.  Or when someone else makes a change, instead of just showing the change you get a little box saying &quot;please refresh me&quot;.  To see your PRs attached to a card, you have to click into the card, then click into the PR list.  It doesn&#x27;t list which repo each PR belongs to anywhere, so you have to put that in the title yourself if you want to be able to see it from Jira.  You can&#x27;t see review status or comment status from Jira, so you have to click straight through to the PR if you want to see how the conversation has moved.<p>And yeah, right now, you have to configure your workflow independently of the columns and then attach the the statuses to the columns.  Figuring that out took a solid day of clicking around in the nightmarish admin sections.  Now that I&#x27;m using it and not trying to configure it, it&#x27;s annoying, it&#x27;s definitely slowing me down over waffle, but it&#x27;s... manageable.  But god I miss waffle.<p>These changes, if they actually exist look like they would salve some of these pains... at least a little.