Evaluation outcome. - Jira Great price cloud or home server for 10 users - 10 U.S. bucks. Gave it 4Gb ram on my VirtualBox ubuntu instance , use Postgresql as database - runs sweetly
Not as fully feature rich as TargetProcess, but can be enhanced by add-ons. Prices of add-ons reasonable for own-server but "add up" when on a cloud based installation. Cannot add linked issues to stories on the fly as you create them (but can do later or possibly by an add-on) Best thing is the streamlined integration with Confluence and Bitbucket. (and probably the other packages if I care to use them). - Confluence I've been dreaming about a product such as this, and here it is sitting there as a product offering to enhance Bitbucket all this time. I just love how easy it is to connect from a meeting, document or blog to feature/story/bug in Jira or vice-versa. It is a wiki on steroids. I've put pages all over the place and managed organise them easily. Decision: A buy. TargetProcess and Redmine are both excellent products and compelling; but the smoother Confluence integration wins me over to Jira . I was able to import almost all of my T.P. data to Jira. I'm still concerned about disaster recovery and portability eg. deployment from server to cloud or to a new URL base. I'd say it is non-trivial, especially if add-ons are used (which unfortunately are almost a necessity). Disaster recovery probably most effective with virtual machine archiving. - Stuart On 5 February 2016 at 10:50, Stuart Kinnear <stu...@skproactive.com> wrote: > 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
