I have been using TargetProcess for a number of years and thought I'd have a change of scene. A bit of time has given me the opportunity to check out a couple of other options. - Jira and Redmine. The pricing of these products suit my tiny operation nicely. My applications are quite extensive so the simple bug tracking features of Bitbucket won't cut it.
Given that Atlassian have a suite of products that complement each other I thought that Jira and Confluence would be go to work with Bitbucket. Anyway, I downloaded and installed the products on an Ubuntu server hosted in VirtualBox. The instance was allocated 2Gb memory and 4 cores. Jira is a greedy beast and runs at a painful pace (using the java database, haven't yet tried postgresql). If I allocated 4Gb it is more acceptable - or ran it in Docker on the bare machine. Aside the performance gripe I tried a backup and restore exercise. I simple exported the data comprised of 12 projects, some with issues, some without and tried to restore. The application simply wouldn't co-operate and refused to load up. Is it me or Jira really this bad ? - how is this product so popular ? It's compelling because of the hooks with other applications and numerous add-ons, but the underlying robustness leaves me shuddering. Is it better to use postgresql and use its backup/restore/replication facility - has anyone successfully worked on this exercise? Redmine is an interesting product, its performance is an order of magnitude faster than both TargetProcess and Jira. I haven't fully tried out the backup and restore, nor Bitbucket integration. Unfortunately the week of free time is evaporating. I see Confluence as being the missing link in my operation as meetings and thought processes can be documented with hyperlinks to the project management and source control products - given that Jira & Bitbucket are Atlassian products, the process of integration is easy. I'm keen to see if Redmine or Targetprocess could achieve the same. TargetProcess has a decent feature set, for which in Jira has to be cobbled together. Maybe I'll stick to it ! -- Friday discussion - what are you guys using or comments ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Kinnear Mobile: 040 704 5686. Office: 03 9589 6502 SK Pro-Active! Pty Ltd acn. 81 072 778 262 PO Box 6082 Cromer, Vic 3193. Australia Business software developers. SQL Server, Visual Basic, C# , Asp.Net, Microsoft Office. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
