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I still hold my breath when updating my Redmine server. There was typically an unmet dependency that crashed the whole thing. You get really good at reading the error logs.
I think it's a great app with a huge amount of flexibility from UI to plugins. It's easy to use, performance is quite good on even lower end hardware, and there is decent documentation if even sometimes dated. We have customers and our internal teams using this app every single day, day in and day out, and it just stays rock solid stable for years on end.
That said, upgrading this thing is an absolute nightmare. And if you need to upgrade the underlying OS you're going to have a bad night or 5. The database design is very abstract so writing ad-hoc queries or trying to fix something manually via the db is not fun at all. I'd seriously rather stub my toe in the middle of the night on an amish made coffee table, twice, than touch this thing on the back end for any purpose.
On my company we use redmine to keep track of time spent on each protect, or even as a simplified Jira substitute. We have the tasks, we just need to "spend time" on them. The interface is slow and requires many clicks, but thanks to their api I made an app to do it with just a couple, even automatic if you only have one task!
I had to work with a brandlabeled Redmine solution (plan.io) which was a terrible experience. Roughly ten years ago. I remember it breaking every two weeks in different ways and support always told us it's the underlying original Redmine stuff. Never figured out if this was even true or not, but I avoided it since then just to be sure. Maybe other comments will have some success stories and change my mind.
We run everything in the standard configuration and as a general rule do not install any plugins because they can cause a lot of problems, especially during upgrade time.
If you just want things to work for years ahead and focus on what you do, redmine will be my pick, it has everything I need, nothing fancy, nothing more, get the job done, from issue tracking, to git, to wiki, to file management, to use/clients/customer access, you have them all, solid.
I am shocked to see the design did not change a bit.
Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.
The company I work for switched from redmine to jira few years ago, after using redmine since 2009 or so. It was a really bad decision spearheaded by a single project manager. I miss redmine. I hate having to see the constant interstitial loading animation in Jira. And working through small modals. Just load the damn page for the link I clicked on. All the “single page application” junk is rarely executed well. But I…
Sure, have a simpler GUI for Jira Service Desk users in a non-technical customer service role. Give me a different GUI that’s not driven by designers looking to reinvent. I don’t need that, I don’t want that, and it just wastes my time.
Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.
I'm currently using GitHub Projects for the Kannan view that integrates with Issues. Does Redmine have that feature?