Technology

Our migration was a mess. And took a long time. I don't know how much our contracted company was at fault. They certainly didn't do a good job. We have Jira extended for time management to billing and staff pay and whatnot.

I have some CSS Hacks to make the cloud version usable, but the DOM is a mess. Only test id attributes are reasonable, stable, and descriptive. Everything else is random in terms of class and id.

Occasionally, something changes. Despite a dedicated maintenance window by Atlassian, and marketing towards predictiveness and all that positive stuff, occasionally something changes without warning, without announcement. And you're left wondering - is my memory getting that bad? Is this new?

My last highlight is that they converted migrated images in Jira ticket descriptions into some square image control. Something you can't even use for new images. Pasting or dropping an image into the description will lead to something different. When it's attached as an attachment, like it was in the past, you can only include it into the description as a fixed attachment either inline control or inline fixed preview control.

If you have an old description with rectangular screenshots, you know, possible because you have a widescreen monitor, or because we have width space and make use of it for content, the square adds a ton of whitespace. Make the image big enough to be readable, and the only thing on your entire screen is the image and dead space, half of the height dead space.

There's many annoying and horrendous things.

Worst is we contracted some third party for a custom menu and whatnot. We have a browser extension for that, for Jira and Confluence. I have all three functionality sets disabled because it makes it even slower or broken.

It works for the most part, but man, there's so many irritations and annoyances.