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Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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?

You can do a lot on free ClickUp

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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.

Now this extensibility is what I’m interested in, as I’m working in a project which needs front end extensibility and have no idea where to start!

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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.

I agree to the idea of not ignoring Indian names. We do have India names as well on certain screenshots. To distribute well we used all kinds of names. We tried our best to globalize.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#34

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?

I've used Redmine although with just 2 users: https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki

The per-project wiki feature is useful for documentation.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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…

The value prop is that you can self-host it at all, which JIRA now discontinued unless you pay ~$50k per year.

Within 3 seconds of reading the GitHub page I was sold. It’s already on my todo list for next week.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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.

Native Spanish speaker that builds software for English speaking markets: I don't think I would write a software or make screenshots where I would think first to put names like Juan or Pedro in them if the target audience is English speakers.

When you're writing English it just feels like the names flow better, that's all (like, avoiding stutter in a sentence, but with names). I don't think it would be fair to say we're just not honoring our roots

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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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.

If I'm not mistaken, they want a minimum of 800 seats to sign a BAA. It's absolutely crazy, and forced my company to choose a significantly worse product in its place.

Edit: for Plane, the GPT powered pages are a non-starter for HIPAA unless the feature can be completely disabled.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

#40
Just about any ticketing system (including the established open-source ones) could be described as an "alternative to JIRA", even if bare-bones, so you might be better off describing the unique capabilities or UX that makes this one special. (And if mentioning JIRA at all, say what you offer to people converting -- $dayjob would probably be interested in one that seamlessly imports tickets with extra custom attributes and custom workflow which refers to them, but implementing that is not an easy lift.)
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