[actionowl]

I setup Redmine, Gitolite, and Jenkins when I started working at a company a few years ago. They worked great and we had a couple of python scripts to make everything fit nicely together (git commit keywords to resolve issues, etc).

Then one day someone decided they needed "reports". We ditched our working system and paid a bunch of money for the Atlasssian suite. To this day I still miss our simple, functional, and free setup.

Bamboo was so bad that we eventually gave up on it and switched back to Jenkins. Seriously Bamboo is one of my most hated software products of all time.

We tolerate Confluence but the fact that the JIRA and Confluence have their own, annoying flavor of markdown, which is different from Bitbucket's flavor annoys me to no end.

Bitbucket (which was called something else before) does have a few nice features but nowadays there are options better than gitolite alone. JIRA has those pretty reports that someone wanted and that are never accurate.

yay.

[chrisseaton]

> We tolerate Confluence but the fact that the JIRA and Confluence have their own, annoying flavor of markdown, which is different from Bitbucket's flavor

How do they justify this? It trips me up every single working day of my life. The products look identical so all I see is a text box on a white site with blue accents and I inevitably start writing the wrong markdown.

[thepratt]

It's got so much worse. Even within JIRA there's 2 different flavours: the backlog preview _new_ updated version, and the old horrid detail issue view version. Annoying doesn't start to describe it.

[robbyt]

Atlassian software can be so disappointing. We are running Confluence on GKE, and it was such a chore to properly containerize it.

We also use RedMine (running on GKE) and that was a breeze to setup and deploy.