You can give a try at Redmine. I've used it and I think the differences might be pros for some and cons for others. The UI is, in my opinion, bad, and it lacks some features from Jira. That being said, since it's open source (coded in Ruby), you can personalize it, add your own features (or others that are already out there) and host it yourself. At the same time there's a lot of hosting companies that do that for you if you don't want to play this kind of game. Using hosting services usually makes it a lot more complex to add your own features though!
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#12If your source repositories are on Github, please consider Github issues. You'll need to setup a lot of labels to handle the different status, priority and component fields that you'd normally get in JIRA, and you'll have to use Github "projects". You'll also have to use issue checklists instead of subtasks. I'd do it myself if our organization's process wasn't so deeply integrated with JIRA.
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#13By far the best I've used and administered (self-hosted) is: https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker
Killer feature for me: "Seamless Email Integration". As a client or a provider you never need to open the web interface. Just the managers do.
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#14https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/ I loved using this with my friends.
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#15has anyone tried https://monday.com? I've not tried them yet, but I've seen lots of ads
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#16Clubhouse. It's genuinely brilliant https://clubhouse.io/. Basically super trello, has epics, projects, milestones, GH integration etc, but doesn't feel bloated.
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#17You should give Taiga a try, it is self-hosted but it is seriously fast and fun to try.
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#18If your source repositories are on Github, please consider Github issues. You'll need to setup a lot of labels to handle the different status, priority and component fields that you'd normally get in JIRA, and you'll have to use Github "projects". You'll also have to use issue checklists instead of subtasks. I'd do it myself if our organization's process wasn't so deeply integrated with JIRA.
+1 for GitHub Issues as it is closely integrated with code.
If you are using GitLab, then GitLab also has its equivalent called Issues.
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#19You can try Taiga [1] it supports kanban style or scrum style development with a very beautiful interface. It has all you need built-in with issues, epics, tasks, sprint or just a kanban board.
Both front-end and back-end are open source. It can be customized easily and can be integrated with video conference, IRC, slack, CI, Gitlab, GitHub, kallithea-scm or just with git and mercurial easily.
Backend is built using Python Django framework with celery and front-end as SPA in angularjs. Give it a try I think it's also a very good example production system in Django with angularjs to learn from.
Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira
#20If your source repositories are on Github, please consider Github issues. You'll need to setup a lot of labels to handle the different status, priority and component fields that you'd normally get in JIRA, and you'll have to use Github "projects". You'll also have to use issue checklists instead of subtasks. I'd do it myself if our organization's process wasn't so deeply integrated with JIRA.
I absolutely love Github Issues, and if I could get the budget I'd get us a Teams subscription and run with it.
The problem is that the main projects I work on are for non-profit volunteer groups, so anything without a direct attendee benefit is an extremely hard sell. :(