Jira is a proprietary software product for project management, bug tracking, and issues.
A few days ago the news broke that Red Hat has made the decision to change the development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Stream to a new issue tracking system, which was previously based on Bugzilla, to the new Jira platform developed by Atlassian.
For those who do not know about JIRA, you should know that this It is a project management tool which is used to create, maintain and track development team activities, test team and support procedures, and action items such as development task progress, testing status, defect tracking, etc TOUR It is mainly used in Agile based projects, as it allows items to be prioritized based on project status, which is certainly not feasible in Bugzilla.
"This move allows us to consolidate project tracking in one place, making the RHEL project in Jira the single source of truth for all development work," wrote Red Hat senior technical project manager Allison King, and the technical project manager, Rui Ormonde.
Some of the companies that have used Jira at some point for bug tracking and project management include Fedora Commons, Hibernate, Twitter, Skype Technologies, NASA, the United States Department of Defense, and The Apache Software Foundation.
It is mentioned that within the reasons for switching from Bugzilla to Jira, It is because it had already been migrated previously a project to this system, the project OpenShift which already works on Jira and Now it's RHEL's turn.
Among other reasons mentioned is the desire to consolidate the management of all projects in one place and use Jira as a single platform to manage all aspects of development.
It is also observed that Using Jira will expand opportunities to organize collaboration and will increase flexibility to provide partners and the community access to different stages of their product development process. Among the advantages of Jira are advanced visualization capabilities, intuitive hierarchy management, and the presence of a REST API.
On the part of the user interface JIRA, it is quite intuitive and attractive From the first moment. Jira's user interface is much better and continues to improve over time.
JIRA comes with a wider range of custom fields that go far beyond Bugzilla. This includes multi-user, multi-select, tags, date/time, duration, single select, single user, number, text/HTML and many more. Additionally, you can add more custom field types in JIRA using plugins. Additionally, in JIRA, you can run a conditional configuration only based on the Type and Project fields.
We have increasingly used Jira to track the development of projects in our product portfolio, and several products have already made the switch, such as those in the OpenShift family.
RHEL is now doing the same, adding another major product to the same tracking system. In addition to providing tool alignment across the portfolio, Jira provides advanced visualization capabilities, intuitive hierarchy management, and extensive REST API access to help Red Hat plan and execute work strategically and seamlessly across the enterprise. while supporting agile software development.
It is worth mentioning that previously, Red Hat used its own edition of the free bug tracking platform Bugzilla (similar separate editions of Bugzilla also support the Mozilla and SUSE projects).
And regarding how the change to the new platform will be handled, it is mentioned that Red Hat has now started accepting new bug reports in RHEL 6-9 only through the new system and plans to migrate the bug report database existing Bugzilla to Jira in the coming weeks. The Fedora Project will continue to use Bugzilla despite the adoption of Jira on RHEL and CentOS Stream.
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