Why there's not a checklist component available by default?

[Philippe Dajoux]

Why there's not a checklist component (like in Trello where the checklist is very nice to use) available by default?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

By the time enough of Atlassian's customers decided they wanted one (most still do not - checkbox custom fields and/or sub-tasks are more useful for most), there were already some third-party apps available that could provide them. 

So Atlassian went and did other things, rather than implement something that would kill off a vendor (although you might want to take a look at the forms now available in Cloud)

[Jason Walther]

Got the same question from some of my users.

We have a workaround by adding Default Text to the description field to help people a little bit.

It's not your typical checklist but it helps.

You can find the documentation for it here.

This also works in cloud.