‘Personal cloud server’ Jira upgraded for wider groups, dragged into culture wars

Atlassian’s Jira instrument final Friday obtained important upgrades geared toward encouraging its use past growth groups, a day after it was forged in a sinister function within the USA’s culture wars.

Let’s cowl the improve first. Atlassian has signalled that Jira Product Discovery (JPD) will quickly grow to be usually accessible. Like the addition of Jira’s workflow instruments to Confluence, Atlassian’s purpose with JPD is to get extra groups which have enter to software program growth working with the identical instruments.

The workforce JPD addresses is product managers, whom Atlassian believes create want lists for enhancements to software program in spreadsheets, textual content paperwork, or e mail. The concepts expressed can due to this fact be laborious to speak to builders, and more durable to trace.

JPD lets product managers – and others who depend on builders – share concepts after which watch as they’re progressed.

Another Jira enhancement, Work Management, gives mission administration baked into Jira to once more let extra elements of an org work with the Atlassian instrument. Atlassian is conscious of the potential for capturing pockets share with this instrument, which can be one motive it is giving it away for a time.

Atlassian has additionally launched myriad templates for Jira so it is prepared for use in additional workflows that contact on software program.

• Developers: What if somebody stated you’d by no means have to satisfy with advertising and marketing once more?
• Atlassian CEO’s bonkers scheme to pipe electrical energy from Australia to Singapore collapses
• You hearth ’em, we’ll rent ’em: Atlassian sees tech layoffs as HR heaven
• Atlassian smartens up safety, licensing admin instruments

The Register did not ask if a kind of workflows is social media content material moderation requests handed from authorities businesses to social community operators.

We point out that workflow solely as a result of final week’s United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability listening to on “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story” unexpectedly talked about that Jira was utilized in simply such a task.

Representative Anna Luna (R-FL) produced proof that Twitter’s former world head of belief & security, Yoel Roth, and different Twitter employees have been in a position to entry a Jira occasion by which the Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – plus different authorities businesses – reported what they believed was misinformation. Roth and his workforce might then take into account if the reported tweets violated Twitter’s phrases of service. Luna characterised Jira in considerably cloak-and-dagger phrases as a “private cloud server” and urged that use of such instruments is inappropriate and proof that Twitter acceded to authorities requests to suppress sure speech.

Roth tried to clarify the character of Jira, however was minimize off and didn’t return to the subject.

The listening to did reveal one alleged direct try by the US authorities’s govt department to censor Twitter: testimony from Anika Collier Navaroli, previously of Twitter’s Safety Team, acknowledged that then-president Donald Trump let it’s identified he wished Twitter to take away an unflattering tweet posted by mannequin and tv character Chrissie Teigen, bypassing the businesses accountable for such options and the Jira server they used for comparable requests.

Of course The Register is much too well mannered to repeat what Teigen referred to as Trump, however that’s in any case what search engines like google and yahoo are for. ®