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Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by sonofhans »

jitl wrote: post #33
neilv wrote: post #25

They're not migrating users to another VMware company product? VMware can't sell Pivotal Tracker to some company that will keep it going longer (and perhaps try to migrate customers to their own product)?

Since VMware sold to Broadcom in 2023, they've been cutting jobs and increasing prices to squeeze every bit of profitability possible out of their remaining customers. I'm actually kind of surprised they aren't offering support past April 30 2025 end-of-life date for 50x the current pricing.

Oh, not to worry, they will :)

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by pbowyer »

ethbr1 wrote: post #9

Unfortunate. Of all the PM tools I've used, I hated Pivotal the least. It made it easy to do the things that were frequently done. It limited customization down to a sane level. And it generally seemed to stay out of the way (significant look at Jira).

Linear is the one I've settled on, it stays out of my way.

For now. Looking at the competition it's only a matter of time before it becomes bloated to justify valuations.

https://linear.app/

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by acaloiar »

alexhutcheson wrote: post #43

Are there any open source self-hostable tracking/project management tools that still have a committed team and forward momentum? I used to self-host a Phabricator instance, which I liked a lot, but the upstream maintainer made the reasonable decision to step away. My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while…

I've been using Plane (https://github.com/makeplane/plane), also available as a hosted solution (https://plane.so).

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by [deleted] »

nattaylor wrote: post #48
alexhutcheson wrote: post #43

Are there any open source self-hostable tracking/project management tools that still have a committed team and forward momentum? I used to self-host a Phabricator instance, which I liked a lot, but the upstream maintainer made the reasonable decision to step away. My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while…

https://we.phorge.it/ is a community fork that appears pretty active. I was also very fond of Phabricator (all though my team preferred GitHub style pull requests) but I haven't had a need for it recently, so I haven't tried phorge myself.

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Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by sofixa »

alexhutcheson wrote: post #43

Are there any open source self-hostable tracking/project management tools that still have a committed team and forward momentum? I used to self-host a Phabricator instance, which I liked a lot, but the upstream maintainer made the reasonable decision to step away. My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while…

> Are there any open source self-hostable tracking/project management tools that still have a committed team and forward momentum?

Taiga.io?

> My guess is there is not much of a niche for self-hosted solutions anymore. The GitHub Issues free tier covers most of the low-complexity use-cases, while higher-complexity use-cases are addressed by enterprise SaaS.

Especially with the presence of free SaaSes such as Trello, and integrated project management in self-hosted GitLab, yeah.

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by glenjamin »

willsmith72 wrote: post #24
sodapopcan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never worked at Pivotal but did work in a 100% pairing cultural (it wasn’t forced but our team did it for three years) and I desperately miss it. It’s so hard to find companies that do it.

I miss it every time I review a behemoth PR, or another engineer proposes a giant design change in a PR. Those discussions need to happen earlier

I’ve been asked to review massive PRs that were produced by a pair plenty of times.

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

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Post by webdood90 »

I briefly worked on the Tracker team until VMWare bought Pivotal. One of the best teams that I have ever worked on that truly cared about the product they were building.

While pairing could be exhausting, it built a really incredible culture there that will be hard to recreate.

RIP

Re: Pivotal Tracker will shut down

#59

Post by benzible »

sonofhans wrote: post #51
jitl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since VMware sold to Broadcom in 2023, they've been cutting jobs and increasing prices to squeeze every bit of profitability possible out of their remaining customers. I'm actually kind of surprised they aren't offering support past April 30 2025 end-of-life date for 50x the current pricing.

Oh, not to worry, they will :)

Actually I think that was the original plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630 Apparently not enough interest to justify continuing.
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