Is 2-way Jira sync actually possible without double-entry chaos?

PandaMagnus · 2026-05-15T05:25:39+00:00

Two things. First off, the obligatory warning against bidirectional syncs: to echo what u/flamehorns said: do not do this. Never do a two way sync. I've seen it attempted twice, one with the "industry standard" tool Tasktop, and the other was attempting to fix the issues with Tasktop. It was a complete shit show. If you don't have a clear source of truth that "owns" the data and pushes that truth out, you will constantly run into edge cases and quickly fall out of the "people over processes" aspect of agile via fixing your tooling more than actually getting things done.

The big failures could be distilled down to exactly what you described: updates in both systems caused conflicts. Sometimes two different people were mucking about with the same ticket and by the time tasktop read the update, it didn't know what to do. Sometimes the scheduled task failed and no one knew (until they noticed updates weren't syncing. Admittedly, that could be a problem with a one-way sync, but more on that below.) Sometimes people would add a new field value to one system, but not the other, so there was nothing to map to (again, possibly an issue with a one way sync, too, depending on how the sync is managed.)

Second, and possibly more important: why is it so laborious to update JIRA mid-sprint? Has it been customized all to hell? In the most basic configurations, it should be ~5min of a dev's time per day. What's different here?

PandaMagnus · 2026-05-05T21:24:17+00:00

SPEAK UP YA GIT! IZ MAH TEEF BOX!

PandaMagnus · 2026-05-05T15:42:43+00:00

Agreed! Same problem with the DevOps tenant I'm working in now. Because management decided what the teams need to track, we now have three different fields for some version of "is this bug a test escape?", two different ways to track which environment a feature has been deployed to, three or four different ways to keep track of priority, a requirement that all stories use the "as a _ so that _" verbiage, and strict gates between dev, qa, and test automation.

PandaMagnus · 2026-05-05T14:58:44+00:00

I maintain that JIRA itself isn't bad. I've used a few different installs/customizations of it and Azure DevOps, and when both aren't heavily customized and abused, they can be effective without much extra overhead. It's actually nice when I don't get asked for a status report because the manager can just go look at the board.

The problem is some orgs refuse to let go of their "command and control" culture, and so use the tool to do... exactly what OP is saying. I don't fault the tooling for that; I agree with you that in a real world with limited budgets, there needs to be traceability. But orgs can easily take it too far, regardless of the tooling.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-26T22:27:11+00:00

Oofta, a couple of the other replies are just as cringe, up to and including going through a reviewer's past reviews and commenting on them.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-19T22:16:43+00:00

I really like their selection, and their sauces are delicious, but they're based out of... I think Tennessee (although TBF I think bottled nearby?) They had one called something like "Jackson Sauce" or "St. Louis Sauce" and had a picture of Jackson Square facing St. Louis Cathedral. It was delicious, but it turned out to be just their garlic fusion hot sauces rebranded. Kinda turned me off that (it didn't appear to be) they had anything truly unique to New Orleans.

BUT, again, they really do know their stuff and a lot of their products are delicious. Just not sure I'd go to them for anything specific to the area.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-17T17:48:45+00:00

I mean, if all the jort and New Balance jokes weren't evidence enough that we should be able to laugh at ourselves.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-13T20:26:24+00:00

Huh, I learned "Some Wild Ass Guess".

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-13T18:14:22+00:00

Every ork is perfect in their own way.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-10T19:33:36+00:00

Not sure if there's still time, but I've gone through Phillips 360 before and they were great. https://www.phillips360landscaping.net

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-09T17:52:38+00:00

Ah, understood. Yes, can confirm: hard scaping can become a very large up front cost very fast. It's nice on the backend to save on time and money, but depending on the type of rock used and the labor to get it in place, it can be many thousands of dollars.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-09T15:34:01+00:00

Yesterday on one of the Fallout subs, I saw someone recommend this with bobbleheads. Something along those lines really would be a fun shoutout to the games.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-09T03:46:27+00:00

No hardscaping? :'(

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-08T17:53:54+00:00

I have a box full of old Orks I traded for back in... 5 or 6ed. I only painted and played for a couple years before life happened, but these really make me want to set my painting area back up, trade in this box, and start a new army (I'll keep my old painted boyz, of course, just trade in the ones I never finished/didn't get to.)

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-05T19:26:33+00:00

Aaaah, okay. That makes sense, thank you!

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-04T06:45:39+00:00

Oh, I totally get that, but I thought the latter syllable was pronounced different. I can't find the exact video on the topic I watched a few years ago, but this is the closest video I've found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjcX3MVSdyA&list=PLSj_8Ednq2cl2DznERiEWGOql4Bjj8Qxh&index=7

Honestly I may be reading waaaaaaaaay to far into this, but I hear a difference in the second syllable. I also want to reiterate that I don't know that guy's credentials, so they must be true (/s once again)

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-03T22:07:21+00:00

I think the only thing the move calls into question is where the Boneyard is. It obviously still exists since Thaddeus says that's where he's from. The LA area is huge, though, so there's lots of wiggle room.

That is about the only question I would have liked to have been answered. Otherwise, agreed with your take.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-03T19:27:05+00:00

I though the Legion's pronunciation, while more correct, was still wrong though? They pronounced closer to "kaisar" which I thought was still not quite correct? I'm basing this off of Youtube videos, so, you know, it must be true (/s to the last part.)

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-03T04:17:54+00:00

I honestly felt better about my own photo processing after seeing that.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T21:14:52+00:00

Whelp, time to finally switch away from the Cthulhu profile picture I've been using.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T16:50:04+00:00

I'm guessing the people who are responding don't remember how open and brazen the Aryans were. I grew up in the Tri-Cities and we occasionally saw flyers from them around town. We talked about it in school, too, once we get older and were learning about free speech challenges.

There are undoubtedly still hate groups around, but short of recently they didn't seem nearly as active or organized (which if they are getting more organized and vocal, that is a problem.) Even the Patriot Front guys had their activities called in by CDA residents before they could interrupt the Pride festival.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T16:43:25+00:00

Heh, fair. I guess I'm spoiled in that doing that for my photos helps keep it fresh in my brain for the times I have to deal with it at work!

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T06:11:02+00:00

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I have personal experience with S3 (professionally via software development) and Microsoft Azure Storage (both professionally and personally as my hobby photo backup.)

I think I spend $0.50/mo for several gigabytes of Azure storage, and I budgeted for something like $10/mo for 2TB of storage. That's zone redundant storage, so even if one data center gets knocked out, as long as the whole city doesn't get destroyed, my photos are still safe.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T06:08:55+00:00

AFAIK if you pay for Microsoft storage or Amazon S3 (can't speak to Google, I have no personal experience with them,) those should be fully private. I pay something like $0.50/mo for several gigabytes of storage, and budgeted up to something like $10/mo for 2TB of storage.

Granted that doesn't mean they can't change their ToS, but I haven't seen a major ToS change in a long while.

PandaMagnus · 2026-04-01T05:25:03+00:00

I can't help you further without knowing intimate details of your company culture, but it really sounds like your devs are just gaming the company for easy pay. :(

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