[WG: Sakai QA] [Building Sakai] [DG: User Experience] Jira upgrade: 3.13.2 -> 4.1.2

[Matthew Jones]

I agree that the 'look' is a step back between the 2 versions of jira.
Perhaps it's more of an issue because we've been staring at the same jira
for years and are very used to it, though some improvement is needed

The 3.13 version is much faster to parse out the details because of the
background color difference, the location of items and the table borders.
Also in 4.1.2, the fonts are bigger, taking up more space. The SAK that you
link takes almost an extra 'scroll' page over the current because of the
bigger font size and the details being in the central area.

I think the 'old view' would have been perfect if the left area (With the
issue details) didn't scroll with the main view, similar to how the title is
persistent on JIra 4.1.2, and you didn't have to scroll to get to the
comments/commit actions.

Just seems to be a lot more scrolling and more whitespace. ;)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> Yes, the "washed-out" complaint regarding, in particular, the view issue
> page appears widespread.  See
>
> http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-20669
>
> You can compare the new look against the old here:
>
> Jira 3.13.2: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15817
> Jira 4.1.2: http://72.249.101.17:8080/browse/SAK-15817
>
> The new look lacks the clear delineations that once existed that helped the
> eye navigate between details, description, etc.   The issue operations that
> appeared on the left have migrated to a horizontal operations bar.  There
> are other UI changes that will require getting used to but I think delaying
> the upgrade while we wait for Atlassian to tweek the GUI is not in our
> interest.
>
> Personally, I'd like to take advantage of improvements to "bulk move"
> operations that now include the mapping of old project values for components
> and versions to new values, a feature lacking in Jira 3 that made moving
> issues between projects (such as Sakai -> Samigo) problematic.  Other new
> features and fixes are listed in the 4.1 release notes:
>
> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+4.1+Release+Notes
>
> In addition, I have added the charting plugin to the test instance per Alan
> Mark's request and am also working to add the Greenhopper agile project
> management plugin per Beth Kirschner's request.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anth
>
>
>
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:
>
> the main problems for me are:
>
>  - issue page. this has been radically changed and it is now very hard to
> spot things on a page. The overall look is very pale (washed-out) which
> decreases usability / freadability. Also thre's a very annoying scrolling
> feature which makes it hard to go back to the top of the page
> - lack of 'filters' drop down on every page. One of the miost useful
> features was the 'filters' drop down list. This has been changed so you now
> only get a handful of filters in the list - if you have more than 10 filters
> you have to use 2 clicks to jump to a page.
> - many of the links on the project home page have either vanished or been
> hiddens somewhere on the page - after 3 mionths I still havent found some of
> the links I used to use on a daily basis
>
> I think the overriding issue is tha te UI has changed so much that one has
> to learn how to use the system all over again.. The best bet is to try out
> your regular workflow and see how hard navigation appears to be.
>
> adam
>
>  *From:* Alan Berg [mailto:qa.director.sakai at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 17 September 2010 10:04
> *To:* Adam Marshall
> *Cc:* Anthony Whyte; Developers Sakai-Dev; Nakamura List;
> sakai-ux at collab.sakaiproject.org; Sakai QA; Sakai Development UI
> *Subject:* Re: [DG: User Experience] [Building Sakai] Jira upgrade: 3.13.2
> -> 4.1.2
>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> Can you please be more specific. A bullet list of minus points would be
> helpful for discussion. Without any real face time Jira 4 looks on the
> surface better.
>
> Alan B.
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Adam Marshall <
> adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> We moved to jira 4 and I wish we hadnt.
>
> In my opinion the interface is vastly inferior compared to Jira 3 - I would
> think long and hard before moving. Atlassian are working on a new UI which
> answers many of the biggest complaints and it may be worth waiting until
> that is released before upgrading.
>
> so that's a -1 from me.
>
> adam
>
>
>
>
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