Did had a look at 6.0-rc1 today. I really like view issue page now! Also Administration menu and tab layout looks nice. Thank's also for bringing back Admin search box.

The switch between browse project and admin project is nice, but I would prefere buttons, because the tabs are waisting too much horizontal space. Actually I would merge admin versions with browse versions into one versions tab and same for versions. Then for most of the users resp. project admins there is no need to switch of view the project admin tab anyhow.

What is confusing is the head line "concept" when switching through the vertical tabs in Administration and Project Administration.

• When clicking on "System Info" the tab head line is "System Info". Fine!
• Selection "Versions" tab in browse project, the tab head line is "Versions". Good!
• Selecting "Versions" in project admin, the head line is "Versions" plus version logo. Okay!

• If I go to "Issue Types" the header is "Issue Types Default Issue Type Scheme". But Default Issue Type Scheme is the sected value. That Default Issue Type Scheme is not a tab head line, but a selectable value is not resprected in its UI presentation. An untrained user don't really has a clue, that this is a parameter of the project, which can be changed.
• Same for Screens, Fields, Permissions etc.
• Click "Find new addons" than head line is "Atlassian Marketplace for JIRA".
• "Application Links" is "Configure Application Links"
• "Issue Collectors" is "All Issue Collectors"
• "User Preferences" is "User Default Settings"
• "Statuses" is "View Statuses"
• etc.

i was thinking of fixing it myself by using a webresource plugin. how can you run an AJS jquery function to load on Dashboard page? i have tried using context but to no avail.
here is the question i posted on answers.atlassian.com
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/150185/run-an-ajs-jquery-function-on-jira-dashboard

My bad Paul, you are correct that it indeed shows the Add-ons admin section.

However, it would be feasible if the admin would see only links to Tempo pages, not Fisheye or other products, when he navigates to the Tempo Admin section. Is this something we can do by changing the web-fragments/decorator configuration?

Thanks,
Viðar

pjesi the left hand menu does not represent the "core" admin navigation. This is the subset of the navigation under the "Add-ons" top-level admin section.

It is not very useful to have the core Admin navigation on the left when inside the Tempo Administration section. It was much better in JIRA 5 where the left navigation only contained links from the Tempo admin section.

I recall that we had to support two different admin navigation structures when JRIA 4.4 was released. Is this a similar case that we are unaware of?

mohsin213jc we are on it.

the font on gadget title is too big
http://oi48.tinypic.com/x5589d.jpg

Not sure whether round project avatars will survive (I hope not), but in case of that incident - you should indicate that functionality also in project avatar setting dialog - and let user trim it in circle.

holger.schimanski@bayerbbs.com you may be pleasantly surprised with 6.0-m9 or 6.0-m10 - we love your thinking here.

I don't really like the issue list in the roadmap. I use roadmap to see the whole picture of the current development status (in other words, as a main screen) and, as a novice in JIRA, I find it relatively difficult to quickly percive statuses of the issues. For example, distinguish open issues from closed. Maybe, striking through or graying out closed issues would help. Also, issue status icons are on the far right end of the table, and they are hard to distinguish from each other ("in progress", "resolved", "closed" and so on). In my taste (as a novice, again), icon + text label would be better here.

After some time I had a look again at JIRA 6 and I stumbled on some of the same things still in m06-7.1. I'd like to repeat a statement from JRA-30983.

It is easy to get from project summary to project amdin by using "Administer Project". At the same position you should place the "Browse Project" button to give an easy way to get back to the project admin to project summary.

I personally think, that this would be a real timesaver. "Browse project" is the primary action of project admin (all tabs).

Think about adding a new version as an example: In version tab of project summary click on "Manage Versions". Then add the new version. Then click on "Browse Project" and you are back on the project page. Instead you have to click "Summary", then "cogwheel > Browse Project".

pjesi posted a few comments on ADG issues on this comment

The layout of the login dialog on the Dashboard is broken.

In general I love the changes. There are a couple of changes I don't like though.

1. Round Project Avatars - We have 180 projects and all of them have individual images tailored for the project with Square images.
2. The amount of whitespace and large font sizes - I completely agree with Holger Schimanski in regards to the bizarre use of large fonts and vast amount of whitespace as a result of this change.

Lastly, similar to what Patrick Sinclair mentioned I think JIRA would benefit from a customisable always on screen (and collapsable) side bar similar to confluence. Personally if I was using it I would put in: List of Favourite Dashboards, Last 5 Projects, Last 5 viewed filters, Last 5 viewed JIRA issues.

Just installed the EAP, I like the new design for the most part, 2 suggestions

1. While I like the look of the new top bar, I preferred the functionality of the top bar from 5.2, which only dropped down the list if you clicked on the dropdown arrow, and clicking on project or issue brought you to the project screen or the search screen. Is there any way to get that back?
The current functionality seems like a step backwards to me.

2. It would be nice if the Favorite dashboard list on the left side of the home screen were collapsible similar to the way the structure list in confluence is.

if you only have 1 dashboard, it's not shown, but if you favorite more than 1, it always eats up a chunk of space.
it sucks to give up that chunk of space. At the moment I just don't favorite my other dashboards and load them when I need them the long way which is a pain.

holger.schimanski@bayerbbs.com thanks for digging up the old issues and all the feedback on the view issue page. We're still iterating on the design for it.
We already have a ticket open re highlighting the first menu item, https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/AUI-1078 and we're looking into adding a tooltip for the logo, and if this is a concern for many customers (the tooltip would need to be customisable to work with the customisable logo).

Cheers,
Jurgen

Please take the time to really review and review again the layout of the view issue page. JRA-20669 is three years old now, but it's still in my mind for "take the users with you for major layout changes".

A lot of feedback is valid here as well. Please have a look at JRA-20669 and think about the feedback you got there, how it is relevate for JIRA 6 layout changes.

The main things for me during that discussion was, don't waste space.

• I am not sure, if it is neccessary to increase font-size from 12 to 14px (I like it, but in JRA-20669 there where lots of people complaining about it).
• Increased width for right column for people and dates (this decreases the width for descrition and comment section, which are much more important). In JIRA 5 it is 1/4 in JIRA 6 it is 1/3.
• Increased spacing between comments. In JIRA 5 this was very compact layout.
• Increaded spacing between sections.

What's good

• You removed the grey border arround the view issue page resulting in more space for the page.
• I really like the new blue top bar with projects, issues etc. and the highlighted Create Issue button. But why is the first menu item highlighted? To mark it as the primary action? This is not common in menu. Please also add a description for the JIRA logo (e.g. "Go to the JIRA start page").

I have modified the page with lower spacing between the elements, but still keeping 14px font-size. Hope this helps for the discussion.

The dashboard-item-title is too big and wasting to much space. Use font-size 14px and line-height 12 px. The spacing between the gadgets is nice.

Have a look at Atlassian Marketplace, how many of the plugin icons will look good without modification when you would switch to round icons. This will frustrate the users, that they have to change the icons.

And I don't think, that it is important to differentiate between users and projects. I nearly never open a profile page of a user (except my own profile when I am a new JIRA user to switch on/off autowatch or email on my own changes), so there is no problem in mixing up projects and users pages. This might be different between Bitbucket and JIRA, but I would suggest, that you have only 0.1% traffic on user profiles on a JIRA server.

So, I don't like, that it is changed, because I don't get a real benefit for having the trouble to change the icons.

Cheers
Holger

Thanks for the feedback holger.schimanski@bayerbbs.com.

What do you not like about the round project avatars? Why do you think our users would not like it?

The reason for the change is to differentiate clearly between project avatars (round) and user avatars (square). See more details about avatars in our design guidelines: https://developer.atlassian.com/design/avatars.html

Cheers,
Jurgen

holger@schimanski-web.de had the following feedback:

Do you really want to switch to round project avatars? I don't see any benefit and I can foresee the discussion with our users, why Atlassian is doing such layout changes without any reason or value.
And I personally don't like the issue type images as used in Bitbucket and JIRA 6.0-m02, but I like the square ones (more clear, adequate line width) in the screenshot of the release notes.