That Jira program is crap. I am not sure if it is how it is implemented at vB (and that's my only experience with it). But, it just seems to be a hard to navigate list that has little bearing on what they are actually working on- in terms of what people write and what gets addressed. At this point, looking at it is essentially meaningless to me (well, actually, it just confuses me).
Things seem to be working well enough here now. Agreed, don't use Jira here.