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Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by viharkurama » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #12

simmanian wrote: post #6

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Youtrack - not open source, but free if you have 10 or fewer users.

Youtrack is great but complicated with it's UX. Code level extensibility with Project management tools is near zero. We are working on our extensibility framework called Propel, it gives you the ability to write code with React to extend Plane. Open-sourcing in Q3 2023.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by DrAwesome » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

I played around with Plane locally a little bit about a month ago - I think it's really promising! I wish the documentation was a little better, though; I had to dig around through the source code to figure out how to get the OpenAI/GPT-powered features to work locally. I also wish it supported the gpt-3.5-turbo model instead of relying on the InstructGPT models (like text-davinci-003) for those features (while this isn't exactly a "chat" use-case, I think the chat model would still do a good job, and the 1/10 token cost would be nice).

I'm planning to set up a Plane instance for my friend group as soon as it supports OpenID Connect (SAML would work as well, but I imagine OIDC is coming first, since it's a lot more sane). We have some small projects we maintain, and we desperately need a nice issue tracking tool like this.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by lucb1e » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:29 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #8

donalhunt wrote: post #3

How widespread is Ctrl + K -> insert URL?? Because using it for something else could cause confusion (already encountered on other platforms).

I'm pretty sure that's the cross browser shortcut for "search with default search engine". At least on the browsers I usually encounter it is. These types of shortcut key overrides are why I've got them disabled in my browser by default.

For anyone else frustrated, a quick workaround is to do Ctrl+FK instead of Ctrl+K on offending websites. Focuses the browser UI's search input which then makes the Ctrl+K bubble up from the browser UI instead of the website's document tree.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by simmanian » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

kirbyfan64sos wrote: post #20

simmanian wrote: post #6

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Taiga: https://www.taiga.io/ By the creators of Penpot, free plan is basically only missing premium support. Not sure about the login though...there seem to be some plugins for it, not sure how that works with the hosted version?

thanks! looks like it's also open source as well.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by gervwyk » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:31 PM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #18

It's weird that the landing page has "Joe" and "Leo" (uncommon names in India), as placeholder users, but the authors are from India.

It is weird to hight this as feedback. Choosing very common names for a product intended for a global audience. How is that weird?

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by justinpombrio » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:31 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #4

I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…

One feature they have that Jira does not: the ability for a customer to avoid multi-week outages. Jira went down for some customers and took weeks to restore. A customer could avoid this possibility by hosting locally, but I hear Jira is phasing out local hosting while Plane lists it as a feature.

Another feature Plane probably has: not being horribly laggy. You could make a ticket in Jira with a bunch of links or whatever the hell it is that makes Jira load so slowly, and make an identical ticket in Plane, and compare the loading times. From my Jira experiences it shouldn't be hard to be 10x faster.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706...

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by nberkman » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

viharkurama wrote: post #14

smallerfish wrote: post #4

I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…

Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely work on it.

One advantage you have: a BAA, required for HIPAA compliance, is only available with a very expensive Enterprise plan. For HIPAA compliant organizations, a self-hosted alternative could be very attractive.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by viharkurama » Tue, May 30, 2023, 10:49 PM UTC

kirbyfan64sos wrote: post #20

simmanian wrote: post #6

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Check out Taiga: https://www.taiga.io/ By the creators of Penpot, free plan is basically only missing premium support. Not sure about the login though...there seem to be some plugins for it, not sure how that works with the hosted version?

We have a singular focus working only on Plane and making it big for everyone. We are still in early stages, so had to rush on few decisions, but we treat every user the same.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by 29athrowaway » Tue, May 30, 2023, 11:07 PM UTC

gervwyk wrote: post #25

29athrowaway wrote: post #18

It's weird that the landing page has "Joe" and "Leo" (uncommon names in India), as placeholder users, but the authors are from India.

It is weird to hight this as feedback. Choosing very common names for a product intended for a global audience. How is that weird?

It is just weird to me that using those names was perceived as a necessary step.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by jszymborski » Tue, May 30, 2023, 11:08 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #4

I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…

I haven't tried the app, but I'm almost certain you can make certain favourable comparisons of page render speed.