[mseebach]

> Atlassian has very opinionated product managers

I'd say that's a good thing. A product can't be all things to all people and when it tries it ends up as a big hogde-podge of compromises that make no-one happy (either that, or being a beast to configure, thus making support painful).

Now, I don't know what the particular issue over forks are (related to branches?) and whether it's reasonable, but the fact that they were eventually convincible only makes it seem better.

[hrjet]

In general I agree, but "forking" would be considered as a very essential feature by many in a product like Stash. I don't think dozens of users were needed to argue that it be included.

Another example of a crazy bug/feature in JIRA: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/84349/rapid-board-ti...