Live data from Hacker News

Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

plane.so

61–70 of 193 posts

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#61
post #6

That does look like a pure copy of Linear UI wise

Didn't know Linear before, but indeed it looks like a lot is coming from there, even their terminologies (i.e. "Cycles", etc.). Linear does seem to have more integrations, but less issues (250 max.) on their Free tier.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#62
post #46
post #36

> See what 2,300+ folks in a forum get up to oh okay > Join our Discord sadness. where's the forum?

It’s funny as I think discord is actually kind of harder to get into than the old irc method. With irc there was no history or permanence so there was a relationship between discussion and what made it into the project as source or docs. With discord it’s weird because the expectation seems to be on me to wade through hundreds or thousands of messages to find docs because there are people who hang out and read everyt…

Discord does have an okayish search feature which gave me a desired answer most of the time I joined a server because of a particular program I had. Enormous downside being that you have to guess the previously used wording if you don't have an error message or something.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#63
post #36

> See what 2,300+ folks in a forum get up to oh okay > Join our Discord sadness. where's the forum?

Its amazing to me that it has become such a default, similarly to Slack before it. At least some Slack communities tried and worked on getting the channels indexed so that it shows up during web searches, now with discord I need an account just to view the content...

A hard pass from me, especially when an answer to a simple question requires me to drink from their firehose of a search...

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#64

It's not so much "not JIRA", it's that managing code bases outside of the code base is hard and awkward. And due respect to fossil-scm, I don't know if any way to do it otherwise. The goal here is to look at something that tells an organisation why chnages to a codebase occurred. Each individual commit can have a nice explanation (in a given human language) of why that specific change occurred. But how does one link…

Why the need to reinvent the commit message? Look at how Linux does it. If it's good enough for a globally distributed organization creating the operating system the cloud and most phones run on, it can't be completely wrong. They rely solely on mail and commit messages.

Ticketing systems are useful for a lot of other things such as keeping track of work on an individual level, or managing project resource allocations on a company wide level, but I'm not sure it's the best tool to do audits and have accountability. It will at best be a secondary source of that data.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#66
post #62
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s funny as I think discord is actually kind of harder to get into than the old irc method. With irc there was no history or permanence so there was a relationship between discussion and what made it into the project as source or docs. With discord it’s weird because the expectation seems to be on me to wade through hundreds or thousands of messages to find docs because there are people who hang out and read everyt…

Discord does have an okayish search feature which gave me a desired answer most of the time I joined a server because of a particular program I had. Enormous downside being that you have to guess the previously used wording if you don't have an error message or something.

Yes, but Discord does not get indexed by search engines, because it’s not an open platform.

So while it is in the interest of the open source project that as many people going forward can benefit from past Q&A, it is in the interest of Discord to require you to install their client to search.

Silos are sad.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

#69

It's not so much "not JIRA", it's that managing code bases outside of the code base is hard and awkward. And due respect to fossil-scm, I don't know if any way to do it otherwise. The goal here is to look at something that tells an organisation why chnages to a codebase occurred. Each individual commit can have a nice explanation (in a given human language) of why that specific change occurred. But how does one link…

It’s just “Jira”, not JIRA.
Post reply on HN