Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#62Checkout gitlab. They have issue tracker and wiki along with everything else DevOps. You can also have a look at https://clubhouse.io
For me, Clubhouse has the best UX ratio of personalization, features and simplicity... Hopefully it will continue to be only improved and not extended
Agreed, we've been using Clubhouse for the past few months and it really hits the sweet spot. Not as complicated as Jira but more features than Trello.
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#63We use Scrumwise. This is focused on Scrum and Kanban, and also supports issues to a certain amount. The staff is very responsive.
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#64Did 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 overl…
It absolutely feels like a tool for managers, not developers. I just want to see what I'm supposed to be working on and push them to the right person when I've done my part, and all of the rest is noise to me.
Jira puts issue management first (and even fails a bit with that IMO), and makes getting work done more painful than necessary.
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#65Since nobody mentioned it...
I spent a number of years running and customising Trac (https://trac.edgewall.org) in a multi-project environment (400+ repos, etc.).
It's not pretty and has some strange abstractions, but it can be customised to a surprising extent.
Edit: also https://gitea.io. The issue tracker works, even if it's very streamlined.
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#66I would suggest you to take a look at Tuleap https://www.tuleap.org/, an all-in-one 100% open source tool for agile management and development tool. You have a panel of modules you can choose to work, with by project. It supports Scrum, Kanban, waterfall-oriented approaches. It provides a powerful issue tracking system with hight level of workflow customisation options. It integrates finely Git, Gerrit, Jenkins and Test management as well as Document Management.
Disclaimer: I'm fan of Tuleap as I'm member of the Tuleap team :-)
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#67Huge fan of Asana. One feature I've only ever seen in Asana is the the ability to have a single task added to multiple lists with the ability to independently drag to prioritize on different lists. You might be ordering your list by customer priority including marketing and sales tasks, I can order mine by the order I'll tackle them in including unrelated devops tasks. We can have different priorities without breaking things and it's still one task so if either of us marks it as done the other sees it as done.
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#68By 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.
I spent two years using and then administering two RT servers.
I arrived with effectively no real PERL knowledge but a high level of Linux sysadmin competency
I hugely enjoyed working with the system. It was productive, flexible, and never gave me unexplained errors.
Even scripting on the perl api was an excellent experience.
Moreover the devs were extremely helpful in their irc channel (circa 2014-2016 at least) and walked me through a manual upgrade caused by the previous admin customizing the database schema in an unsafe way
Would highly recommend
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#69GitLab works perfect for my needs. Using it for planning work, version control and CI/CD. No complaints.
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#70You can get reasonably far with Trello, if all you're doing is item tracking. If you're trying to do anything more than a free-for-all workflow, or wanting to do reporting, it's less good.
https://restya.com/board is open source Trello alternative