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Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by dragonsh »

philpem wrote: post #47
dragonsh wrote: post #19

You 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…

I've noticed a lot of people mentioning Taiga in the comments, and it looks like it's got everything we'd need. I'll have a dig and see if there's a Docker script to run up a test/eval installation. I might have tried to install it before, but the separate "backend" and "frontend" made it look quite complex to install. Python is a big plus, I know how to make that decently performant on our VPS (half our tech stack i…

My team had built a lxd image to run it as lxd container. It's easy to do.

It also has great documentation check at http://taigaio.github.io/taiga-doc/dist/

You can look at installation setup production system. It has a built-in script which can automate installation too with systemd service setup.

Obviously forgot to mention you can have it as SaaS if you do not like to do self-install. Check https://taiga.io/

Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by Corrado »

void_ita wrote: post #10

We've settled down with YouTrack (by JetBrains). It doesn't look pretty buy it's designed by (and for) people that uses it. Its command management is AWESOME. It's also quite cost effective compared to other solutions. Couldn't find a more productive tool that that one if you want to have something more organized than trello (eg. timetracking and customizable fields)

We are using YouTrack cloud and while it does the job, it's not really satisfying to use. We would like to see more and better integrations. My current frustration is the Git integration; it only works with commits (not PRs) and is not 100% reliable. There is also a Confluence plugin that someone wrote for their hosted version 6 years ago, but the company won't enable it for the cloud version.

On the plus side, I've had pretty good interactions with their support team and they seem pretty responsive. Given that they are located in Eastern Europe, the team communicates very well and I generally don't have any trouble getting them to understand what's going on.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by benbristow »

the_duke wrote: post #34
benbristow wrote: post #28

Azure DevOps is pretty good - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/devops/ Comes with a full suite of Agile project management tools with Kanban boards, Wiki etc. and then integrates with pull requests etc. through its Git repository hosting system.

DevOps has a horribly confusing and slow interface, IMO.

Seems fast on my machine. It seems to be constantly improving. I've only recently started using it but it's quite god.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by majewsky »

mister_hn wrote: post #49
Philomath wrote: post #11

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 yo…

+1 for Redmine, as it can be self-hosted and doesn't need to hand out your information to SaaS ones like Trello or Taiga

Taiga is open-source and can be self-hosted.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by gauthamshankar »

We have built a lightweight alternative to JIRA - https://zepel.io

Our primary focus is to help product teams plan and track their features. We support bug tracking and cross-functional collaboration as well.

It's under active development. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Jira

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Post by tdewitt »

sorich87 wrote: post #4

Did you try the "New Jira"[1]? It has been pretty decent for us. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/the-new-jira-be...

Atlassian has a major flaw in their understanding of how a lot of developers work and it is evident by all heir "new" versions of stuff. They've made simple editing harder (WYSIWYG only, which often makes bad assumptions), made drastic changes to the UI, broken workflows, removed keyboard shortcuts and made it impossible to open an issue full page by clicking a linkbun the web app without first loadingbit as an overlay. They are, hands down, the worst offender of "if it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is" that I've ever seen. I'm constantly advocating for anything else in every org I work with. An issue tracker doesn't need to be full of sugar, it needs to be simple and consistent. Atlassian fails magnificently at both of those.
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